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Housing and coastal groups urge fuller funding for DLCD in public hearing on Senate Bill 5528
Summary
Four witnesses testified in favor of funding increases in the budget for the Department of Land Conservation and Development, highlighting technical assistance packages for housing production and requests to restore coastal management funding.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Four witnesses told a Senate committee Thursday that the Department of Land Conservation and Development needs more funding to help cities speed housing production and to support coastal management programs.
Testifiers addressed Senate Bill 5528, the department’s budget bill, during a public hearing and urged the committee to support technical assistance packages and coastal-program funding the agency uses to implement the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis and other land-use work.
Michael Anderson with Sideline Institute said the scale of Oregon’s housing shortage makes cheaper building approaches essential. "That would cost us about $4,000,000,000 per biennium," Anderson said of meeting the shortage using only regulated affordable housing, and he described smaller technical-assistance investments as “a very modest investment with a potentially huge payoff.”…
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