Opinion: Portland’s broken affordable housing promise

Published on: 12/21/2025

This news was posted by Oregon Today News

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Portland-area voters have passed bond measures specifically to build affordable housing for low-income residents, the author writes. But a slow, labyrinthine application process, which has contributed to mass vacancies of these units, reflect a system that’s failing the working class.

Emmanuel “Onry” Henreid

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025/12/opinion-portlands-broken-affordable-housing-promise.html

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