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Building Bend’s Future

Does the Urban Growth Boundary hold hope for affordable housing?
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Bend has a housing problem—or, more precisely, with rental vacancy rates less than half a percent, an affordable housing shortage. And some city leaders believe that loosening up the Urban Growth Boundary could provide some relief from that chokehold. It is a basic theory that makes sense: Opening up more land for development will provide […]

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Little Boxes on the Butte-side

City seeks short-term solutions to housing crisis
Avatar photo Erin Rook

Rental vacancy rates are down nationwide, and Bend’s market is among the tightest at less than 1 percent, with only about 17 rentals available in Bend at any given time. With vacancies decreasing and populations increasing, the city is scrambling to find short-term solutions, even as it works toward greater efficiency measures (read: infill) in […]

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