Amid housing crisis, Oregon issuing building permits for multifamily units at slowest pace in 12 years

Investors are wary and public subsidies are not enough to move the needle.

 

By Khushboo Rathore

Oregon Journalism Project

Oregon is in a housing crisis. The state needs to build 95,000 housing units to compensate for years of underdevelopment and to house its growing homeless population, according to a recent state report.

Multifamily units — from duplexes to large apartment buildings — are one of the most efficient ways for Oregon, or any region,…

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