Oregon’s Goal 10: Housing. 2025 Legislative Concept with Statewide Partners
1000 Friends of Oregon and statewide partners have outlined a comprehensive 2025 legislative concept to advance Oregon’s pro-housing framework. Key proposals include providing infrastructure funding to:
- Ensure that residential zoned lands are development-ready (improving infrastructure through the provision of funding for water, sewer, and transportation.)
- Remove barriers to ownership for middle housing
- Revise building codes to allow shared utilities/connections for middle housing
- Allow all middle-housing types
- Develop specific “ready build” middle housing plans
- Authorize land trust and cooperative land ownership models
- Remove barriers to the use of modular/manufactured housing
- Allow housing on all lands zoned for commercial use
This initiative addresses Oregon’s significant housing shortage, which requires about half a million new homes over the next 20 years, especially for moderate and lower-income households. The coalition seeks to rally support across the state to influence legislative actions during the January-June 2025 legislative session, emphasizing infrastructure investment and policy changes to enable diverse, affordable housing options.
The coalition includes partner organizations such as 1000 Friends of Oregon, Central Oregon LandWatch, Portland: Neighbors Welcome, Thrive Hood River, and Better Housing Together.
Thrive Hood River’s role will be to supply local and firsthand stories for how infrastructure or code updates from the state could help to ease our housing shortage (particularly multifamily development) with the cities of Hood River and Cascade Locks.