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Council approves social-housing task force, adds lived-experience seats and seeks facilitator funding
Summary
The City Council approved a resolution to create a task force to study social housing, adding an amendment requiring at least two members with lived experience navigating Portland’s housing market and indicating staff will seek grant funding for a paid facilitator and technical consultants.
The City Council voted to establish a social-housing task force to study options for city-led affordable housing, including financing tools and program design, and to return recommendations to the council.
The resolution—sponsored by the Housing and Economic Development Committee and introduced as Resolve 7 24 25—directed staff to create a task force of up to 13 members. Councilors amended the resolution to require at least two members of the task force be “from underserved populations with lived experience navigating the challenging housing environment in Portland.”
Supporters of the task force said the city needs new tools to…
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