affordable housing

Affordable housing: A couple of projects

Written December 26th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

Everybody these days is talking about the need for affordable housing in Albany. In that connection, a couple of things are going on.

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Tags: affordable housing, apartments, farmworker housing, Farmworker Housing Development Corp., housing, Linn-Benton Housing Authority, subsidized housing, workforce housing

Council votes for three housing grants

Written October 26th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

It took a year for the Albany City Council to allocate part of the $1 million the Oregon legislature gave the city to do something about homelessness or the shortage of housing that people can afford.

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Tags: $1 million, affordable housing, Creating Housing Coalition, Habitat for Humanity, homeless, homelessness, housing grants, Jackson Street Youth Shelter, SB 5561

Albany housing grant decisions put off

Written September 12th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

The Albany City Council wasn’t ready to make a decision Monday about which of five applicants for a share of $1 million in housing funds would get how much.

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Tags: $1 million, affordable housing, Albany housing grants, homelessness

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