Bend YIMBY News - 11/10/2025
Bend / Oregon
Tomorrow - Tuesday, November 11th, 5:30 PM @ Wildwood Bar and Grill (Box Factory) we’ll be discussing the Neighborhood Commercial proposal that we’ve been working on with Central Oregon Land Watch - https://www.centraloregonlandwatch.org/neighborhood-commercial We hope to see you there!
Save the date: our gingerbread house competition will be December 9th. Details TBD.
Good collaboration between city council and the school board to get affordable housing built: https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/10/bend-city-council-housing-project-help-school-employees/
The debate about money for homes, or parks for those who can afford to live in Bend: https://bendbulletin.com/2025/11/03/editorial-the-polite-fight-over-bend-park-money/
Elsewhere
The median age of first-time homebuyers is now 40 years old, because of our housing problems in the United States: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/us-first-time-homebuyers-age-rises-to-40-on-high-prices-mortgage-rates
YIMBYs won in local elections across the country: https://www.facebook.com/yimbyaction/posts/pfbid0vW6zzk5HC1DRt1xXoN6exqk92QETPeESLR9ceiupUXZGGMXDY49WUBWK6anWdprdl - these often matter more in terms of housing than national races. In NYC, besides the mayoral race everyone was focusing on, they passed several charter amendments that remove some veto points around housing.
… that said, tariffs and deportations are hitting the home building sector hard: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/business/construction-tariffs-immigration-trump.html
Being “pro-housing” isn’t always comfortable as an elected official. By Laura Foote, the executive director of YIMBY Action:
https://inpractice.yimbyaction.org/p/3d7881d0-e265-48a5-a35e-8b011bf947c1
Housing is one of those things where the solutions look pretty similar, the world over. From Australia: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-06/three-storey-city-zoning-property-rental-price-grattan-report/105975946
Justine discusses housing - as well as several other things that we don’t have enough of right now, and some of the history behind that:
