Document Type

Report

Publication Date

6-2026

Abstract

Project Background

For over a decade, communities in the Portland metro area have been struggling under a mounting housing affordability crisis. These trends particularly affect Black, Indigenous, and other people of color as well as immigrants, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities. Given these mounting challenges, the region has turned to Oregon Metro to intervene.

Metro is currently studying land banking as a tool for implementing its Regional Housing Coordination Strategy and promoting affordable housing development in the Portland metro region. While they have acquired numerous sites that have been successfully developed into affordable housing, they are looking to improve and systematize their strategy for acquiring land.

Project Goals

Our goals are to develop robust site selection criteria and a strategy for Metro to consider when seeking to acquire land to advance transit-supported affordable housing and promote economic development.

While we will be looking at examples throughout the nation and even internationally in our research, we also will be accounting for the local conditions that might maximize affordable housing production in the Portland Metro area.

Description

Prepared by Place-Based Collective

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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/44968

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