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It’s not news that Bend has a seriously lack of housing—especially of the affordable variety. But not everyone is in agreement about how to address the problem. We have some opinions of our own, of course, but we want to know what you think. Take our poll below, and if you have ideas not represented here, let us know in the comments.

This article appears in May 6-13, 2015.

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Tell Us How You Really Feel: Affordable Housing

by Erin Rook, The Source - Bend, Oregon
May 15, 2015

<h1>Tell Us How You Really Feel: Affordable Housing</h1> <p class="byline">by Erin Rook, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />May 15, 2015</p> </p> <p>It's not news that Bend has a seriously lack of housing—especially of the affordable variety. But not everyone is in agreement about how to address the problem. We have some opinions of our own, of course, but we want to know what you think. Take our poll below, and if you have ideas not represented here, let us know in the comments.</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> <a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/8869948/">What's the most promising solution to Bend's affordable housing crisis?</a> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/tell-us-how-you-really-feel-affordable-housing-2441068/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=30680&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/tell-us-how-you-really-feel-affordable-housing-2441068/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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