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Gov. Tina Kotek urges faster housing production, extends homelessness emergency
Summary
In her state of the state address, Gov. Tina Kotek renewed the homelessness state of emergency, outlined shelter and housing production milestones, and urged the Legislature to adopt her budget and policy proposals to speed construction of affordable housing.
Gov. Tina Kotek, the 39th governor of Oregon, told a joint session of the Oregon Legislature that the state must accelerate housing production and continue emergency measures to address homelessness.
Kotek said she extended the homelessness state of emergency last week and credited coordinated local and state efforts with early gains but said more action is required. "By this July, the actions related to the homelessness state of emergency initiated 2 years ago are projected to rehouse 3,300 households and prevent 24,000 households from experiencing homelessness in the…
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