Housing

Thinking About Building an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)?

ADUs are becoming increasingly important in solving workforce housing problems because they provide an affordable housing solution and are relatively easy and cost-effective to build. The City of Bend has even created a pre-approved design that you can use to save...

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Rooted at Poplar: New Year, New Homeowners Moving In!

Due to the ice storm last week, RootedHomes unfortunately had to cancel its scheduled ribbon cutting of Rooted at Poplar. The event is not able to be rescheduled because most of our homeowners are moving in. The virtual tour is available here. If your company would...

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Will the 2023 Legislative Housing Investments be Enough?

The 2023 session’s clarion call for housing brought forth a variety of legislation that reflected the broad and deep housing needs of our state. It was an attempt to attack the issue on many fronts, but was it enough to get the housing production flywheel spinning?

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Building More Housing Requires More Tools from the State

By Katy Brooks, CEO This article first appeared in The Bulletin on May 7, 2023 There are numerous reminders every day of how serious the lack of housing has become in Oregon. When our schools can’t retain teachers, our children fall behind. When hospitals can’t hire...

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Employer Application Process Now Open for Workforce Housing Pilot

On February 1, the Bend Chamber and Kôr Community Land Trust announced the opening of the employer application process for the employer-supported Poplar Community on Bend’s west side. Employers can apply to become employer partners of the project, which enables their employees to have preference in the upcoming general public lottery for selecting homebuyers in the Poplar Community.

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Bend Businesses Chip in to Help Solve Affordable Housing

Kor Land Trust Executive Director Jackie Koegh tours the organizations construction site on NE Eighth Street in Bend Tuesday Afternoon.  By Suzanne Roig, The Bulletin. Article originally published on January 21, 2023 From the hallowed halls of the statehouse in Salem...

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Addressing Oregon’s Housing Shortage, Workforce Needs

Oregon Office of Economic AnalysisSeptember 2022 Article by Josh Lehner   We know Oregon has underbuilt housing by about 5 years' worth of new construction in recent decades. The household formation boom during the pandemic likely pushes that to more like 6...

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Time for Solutions to Bend’s Housing Shortage

Ask any employer in town whether the labor shortage is affecting them, and they will likely answer yes.

Most will tell you that lack of workers has shortened operating hours, increased workload for others and decreased their revenue.

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