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Lawmakers hear proposal for statewide rental registry to fill data gaps in housing inventory
Summary
Rep. Mark Gamba introduced House Bill 3877 in an informational session of the House Committee on Housing and Homelessness on April 21, pitching a statewide rental registry to provide accurate, unit‑level data for planning and housing production efforts.
Rep. Mark Gamba introduced House Bill 3877 in an informational session of the House Committee on Housing and Homelessness on April 21, pitching a statewide rental registry to provide accurate, unit‑level data for planning and housing production efforts.
"The purpose of this bill is to go back in and fill several big gaps that were left in the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis," Rep. Gamba said, describing the bill’s core function as standing up a landlord reporting process for unit counts, unit sizes and rents charged.
Why it matters: Witnesses and city staff said the state currently lacks a centralized, reliable source of rental-unit data. Speakers argued that better data would improve targeting of production, preservation and rehabilitation…
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