subsidized housing

What Albany’s new construction tax costs

Written September 1st, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

Owners planning to build projects in Albany may want to file for permits before the end of the year. After that, they’ll get hit with the city of Albany’s latest new tax.

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Tags: affordable housing, Albany City Council, construction excise tax, subsidized housing, Van Drimmelen

Up for council action: Four city lots

Written March 19th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

Next week the Albany City Council will again be asked to consider disposing of four city-owned vacant lots, three of them near the Helping Hands homeless shelter and one close to the riverfront.

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Tags: Albany council, homeless shelter, subsidized housing, surplus land

Albany pauses on subsidized housing laws

Written January 6th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

Two Albany proposals to promote subsidized housing will get another look before they are enacted. And if they get improved as a result, part of the credit goes to Councilwoman Matilda Novak even though she’s no longer on the council.

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Tags: Albany council, construction tax, housing, Matilda Novak, subsidized housing, tax exemption

Next in Albany: A tax on new construction

Written December 14th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 23 responses.

Hoping to promote less expensive housing, one of the first things the new Albany City Council will do next month is to add a city tax on new construction valued at more than $50,000.

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Tags: Albany housing, construction excise tax, low-income housing projects, property tax exemption, subsidized 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