2021 Implementing a Regional Housing Needs Analysis Methodology in Oregon

A pdf of the above image is available at https://friendsoftheunsheltered.org/wp-content/uploads/Housing-Demand-OHCS.pdf.

Notes

• In March of 2021 ECONorthwest released a technical report prepared for and with Oregon Housing and Community Services (and many others).
• During the 2019 legislative session Tina Kotek said “The state’s housing crisis has continued for far too long and demands a bold set of solutions from the Legislature… We must publicly finance more affordable housing across Oregon. We must create more housing choice in exclusively single-family neighborhoods. And we must smooth the way for more construction at the local level. This is the goal of House Bill 2003.”
• The purpose of the study was to develop a methodology for a Regional Housing Needs Analysis for Oregon (RHNA) as required by HB 2003.
• Using the proposed methodology, the report provided tables showing forecasted housing needed by the year 2040.
• In December of 2022 (this past December) the Department of Land Conservation & Development in conjunction with Oregon Housing and Community Solutions released their legislative report that “describe the comprehensive, system-wide reforms needed to reverse decades of underinvestment in housing production and development readiness, organize our land use planning systems toward the common goal of building housing, and begin to redress disparities in housing outcomes.”

Data Sources

ECONorthwest. (2021). Implementing a regional housing needs analysis methodology in Oregon: Approach, results, and initial recommendations, from https://www.oregon.gov/ohcs/about-us/Documents/RHNA/RHNA-Technical-Report.pdf.

Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development & Oregon Housing and Community Services. (2022). Oregon housing needs analysis legislative recommendations report: Leading with production, from https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/UP/Pages/OHNA.aspx.

Total Clatsop County

The following table shows the sum of the data within Clatsop County cities (shown above).