Bend YIMBY News - 8/28/2024
Bend / Oregon
This evening (Wednesday, August 28th) at Unofficial Logging Company (910 NW Harriman) we’ll have our monthly meetup and a watch party for the online YIMBYS for Harris event. From 4:30 PM onwards!
We’ll be joined by our mayor, Melanie Kebler, who is also going to be speaking on the call! The speaker list keeps growing and includes Governors Wes Moore of Maryland and Jared Polis of Colorado, Senator Brian Schatz from Hawai’i and a huge list of others involved in the pro-housing movement. RSVP if you can, here: https://www.facebook.com/events/871749704356885 (apologies if you have already, we had to create a new event because of a typo in the time)
If you can’t make it to our event, you can tune in to the above at https://yimbysforharris.com/
https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/development-of-371-homes-including-125-affordable-planned-for-south-bend-highway-corridor/article_c2ba3746-5ffa-11ef-8070-bbf8e8d73e4c.html - more homes, including some below market rate homes!
https://www.bendbulletin.com/opinion/editorial-bends-housing-production-is-relatively-high-just-not-enough/article_4c6624c4-5fd7-11ef-b100-5fd11f0436b3.html “Bend produced and permitted more residential units than Eugene, which has about double the population of Bend.” In other words - we’re making an effort, but still need to do more.
https://ktvz.com/news/bend/2024/08/27/bend-chamber-launches-low-interest-loan-program-to-spur-workforce-housing-development/ - hopefully the amount of money available to this program will grow. The cost of lending is pretty high right now with where interest rates are.
Elsewhere
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/22/harris-obama-dnc-affordable-housing-00175694 - as a YIMBY, it was pretty amazing to see the support for the pro-housing movement at the DNC.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/briefing/us-housing-crisis.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/business/economy/housing-crisis-kalamazoo-michigan.html - any discussion of housing includes someone saying “just move somewhere cheaper”. Well, the housing crisis has reached those places too.