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Reasons Why

• Nearly eight in 10 Oregon families with the lowest incomes pay more than half their income for housing.

• Only one in four households with the lowest incomes in Oregon has access to existing affordable and available rental units.

• One in seven Oregonians and more than one in six children lived in poverty in 2009.

• A worker earning minimum wage in Oregon had to work more than ten hours a day, seven days a week just to afford a two bedroom apartment in Oregon.

• If the average household in a project-based Section 8 unit in Oregon had to pay the state median gross rent, they would only have $29 per month left for necessities such as food and healthcare.

• More than one in ten Oregonians were unemployed during 2010.

Source: 2011 Network for Oregon Affordable Housing

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September 2016 Rescue Mission: Community Strategies Emerge to Preserve Affordable Housing
Affordable Housing Finance
PDF Article

August 2016 Anatomy of a Preservation Deal: Innovations in Preserving Affordable Housing from around the United States
Urban Institute
PDF Article

August 2016 Maturing USDA Rural Rental Housing Loans: An Update
Rural Policy Note
PDF Article

April 2016 Out of Reach 2016: Oregon State Profile
National Low Income Housing Coalition
PDF Article

March 2016 To Preserve Affordable Housing in the United States: A Policy History
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
PDF Article

January 2016 PRAC Preservation Needs and Options, White Paper
Leading Age
PDF Article

January 2015 RD Mortgage Maturities Threaten Hundreds of Thousands of Residents
Housing Law Bulletin
PDF Article

October 2013 Report Preserving Housing Credit Investment: The State of Housing Credit Properties and Lessons Learned for the Extended Use Period
Enterprise Community Partners
PDF Article

August 2013 Report 11 x 13 Campaign Report
City of Portland
PDF Article and Video

October 2012 Report Losing Ground: The Struggle of Moderate Income Households to Afford the Rising Costs of Housing and Transportation
Center for Housing Policy and National Housing Conference
PDF Article

August 2012 Report What Happens to Low Income Housing Tax Credit Properties at Year 15 and Beyond?
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Abt Associates
PDF Article

August 2012 Letter Rural Development, Dynamic Servicing Strategies for the Multi-Family Housing Direct Loan Portfolio
Rural Development
PDF

July 2012 Report What Can We Learn about the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program by Looking at the Tenants?
Kathern O'Regan and Keren M. Horn , NYU Wagner Graduate School
PDF Article

May 2012 Report Affordable Housing Dilemma: The Preservation vs. Mobility Debate
National Low Income Housing Coalition
PDF Article

May 2011 Report The Low Income Housing Tax Credit and Segregation
Keren M. Horn and Kathern O'Regan, NYU Wagner Graduate School
PDF Article

April 2011 Report America’s Rental Housing: Meeting Challenges, Building on Opportunities
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
PDF Article

April 2011 Article on HUD’s Preservation Efforts
Affordable Housing Finance
PDF Article

April 2010 Article on Preservation of HUD Assisted Housing
Congressional Research Service
PDF Article

October 2009 Article on the Case for Preservation
Affordable Housing Finance
PDF Article

September 2009 Report on Affordable Housing near Transit and the 50+ Population
Preserving Affordability and Access in Livable Communities: A report by AARP and the National Housing Trust
PDF Article

January 2009 Report on Ongoing Housing Preservation Needs
Oregon Housing and Community Services
PDF Article

2008 Report on Poverty
Oregon Housing and Community Services
PDF Article

2008 Preservation Projection
Oregon Housing and Community Services
PDF Article

Comparison of Occupations, Wages and Housing Costs by County
Oregon Housing Alliance
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September 19, 2008
Low-Income Housing: Another crisis looming?
TIME
PDF Article