Portland's leaders, including Mayor Keith Wilson and Governor Tina Kotek, are actively seeking solutions to the city's housing crisis. They recently held a meeting with housing developers and construction firms to discuss ways to expedite housing development amid rising costs and inflation affecting vulnerable populations. Mayor Wilson emphasized the urgent need to increase housing supply to improve affordability for residents, particularly for younger individuals, retirees, and low-income families who are disproportionately impacted by escalating housing prices.
"We're struggling here in Portland," Wilson said at a press conference following the meeting. "Our younger residents, our retirees, our low-income folks are being hit hard by inflation and housing costs, and I think that if we increase housing supply, we increase housing affordability."
Mayor Keith Wilson and Gov. Tina Kotek convened a meeting Thursday, March 6, with housing developers, construction firms and other city officials to float solutions to the city's slow pace of housing development.
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