Oregon has the nation’s second-highest rate of homelessness, yet the state keeps funding affordable housing that costs far more than the national average.
By Nigel Jaquiss
Oregon Journalism Project
Oregon’s housing agency has a simple yardstick for measuring how efficiently it funds construction of affordable apartments—they shouldn’t cost more to build than the national average.
For the past three years, however, it has failed to meet that standard—by a wide margin. Last year, hard construction…