affordable housing

Tough choice: Who gets part of $1 million?

Written September 8th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

Maybe it wasn’t a favor for the legislature to give Albany $1 million to do something about affordable housing or homelessness. Now the city council has to decide who gets some of the money, and it’s not an easy choice.

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Tags: $1million, affordable housing, Albany housing, apartments, homeless, homeless shelter, homelessness, housing, Hub City Village

Would lower fees make houses affordable?

Written May 9th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

In the interest of making houses more “affordable,” the Albany City Council seems inclined to lower systems development charges on small new single-family dwellings and raise them on big ones. But “affordable” is not a firm number, so whether the idea works is impossible to predict.

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Tags: affordable housing, Albany council, Albany housing, housing, impact fees, systems development charges

Vacant city lot remains, well, undecided

Written January 24th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

The future of a 1-acre vacant lot, owned by the city of Albany in the middle of the Edgewater Village development off Water Avenue, remains uncertain today.

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Tags: affordable housing, Albany council, cty property, Edgewater Village, Riverfront homeless, Russell Hawke, vacant lot, Water Avenue

Housing task force: Looking for new ideas

Written November 10th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 16 responses.

Albany is joining all the talk about affordable housing with the creation of a task force on this topic. To which the kindhearted reaction is: Good luck!

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Tags: affordable housing, Albany City Council, Albany housing task force, Albany task force on housing affordability, housing affordability

Mission impossible: ‘Affordable housing’

Written August 11th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 15 responses.

The city government in Albany is going to try to do something about “affordable housing.” Good luck.

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Tags: affordable housing, Albany council, Albany planning, expensive houses, housing costs

More affordable housing in Albany? Fat chance

Written May 17th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 20 responses.

As far as planning projects go, the Albany City Council has made “housing affordability” its top priority. But no matter what the planning division comes up with, don’t expect housing to become less expensive or more “affordable” to more people any time soon.

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Tags: affordable housing, Albany council, housing, housing needs, rent burden

More middle housing: Some have doubts

Written February 8th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 31 responses.

Albany is working on changing its development code to allow more “middle housing” as demanded by the legislature, but some on the city council doubt that it’s a good idea or that it’ll work.

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Tags: affordable housing, Albany development code, HB 2001, middle housing, Oregon housing