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City housing bureau: Portland lacks nearly 19,000 units affordable to extremely low‑income households, staff say
Summary
Portland Housing Bureau staff said using CHAS/HUD data the city has roughly 38 units per 100 extremely low‑income renter households, implying a deficit of about 19,000 units; staff said the data are dated and will be updated with microdata and a benchmarking process next year.
Housing bureau staff on Nov. 13 walked elected officials through KPI #3, which measures the inventory of rental homes affordable to households earning no more than 30% of area median income (AMI).
Josh Roper, policy and planning director at the Portland Housing Bureau, told the joint session that using HUD CHAS data (2017–2021) the bureau estimates about 11,740 affordable rental units for roughly 30,690 extremely low‑income (ELI) renter households, which computes to about 38 units per 100 ELI households. "If you want one unit per household,…
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