Housing

From funding shelters to boosting senior housing, lawmakers have put forward a number of bills this session aimed at confronting the state's housing problems.

Eviction filings in Washington state have reached historic highs, with a 66% increase in King County alone since pre-pandemic levels, driven by rising rents, stagnant wages and the expiration of pandemic-era protections.

The proposals center on expediting construction and turning more empty office buildings into housing. Some concepts will require Portland City Council approval to go into effect.

ast month was the slowest April for existing home sales in 16 years — a sharp rebuke to hopes that this spring the housing market would recover after two very sleepy years.

Oregon lawmakers say bill would help guide housing policy.

Now, four months into Wilson’s mayoral term, the day center — which an estimated 1,800 people currently rely on — is set to close. Kristle Delihanty, director of PDX Saints Love, said without city funding, she has no other choice.

Gov. Bob Ferguson signed the bill on Wednesday, it takes effect immediately and will not allow for hikes of more than 10% in a year.

A new partnership between the Oregon State Fire Marshal and a wildfire nonprofit could help Oregonians harden their homes and keep insurance.

People and providers have spent months trying to tap a new program intended to support health by keeping people out of homelessness, and they say that in the Portland area it’s turned into a bureaucratic nightmare in which the promised help often does not arrive in time.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and Gov. Tina Kotek announced a plan Thursday to incentivize developers to build more new housing in Portland.