Mike McLane and Shelly Boshart-Davis are joined by Jacob Vandever to discuss Oregon’s housing and homelessness crisis. The episode examines housing supply, land use restrictions, Portland’s affordable housing struggles, homelessness spending, HB 3115, and why Oregon’s current approach is not producing the results taxpayers were promised.

02:03 – Welcome to Oregon Discussion
03:16 – Housing Policy Is Making the Crisis Worse
04:31 – Meet Jacob Vandever
07:04 – Watching Housing Policy Fail Over Time
08:46 – Kotek’s Long Record on Housing Policy
10:30 – Kotek’s 36,000 Homes Goal
14:23 – Tenant Screening and Portland City Council Pushback
15:21 – $911 Million in Housing Bonds Nearly Gone
16:48 – High Taxes, Low Results
17:31 – COVID-Era Eviction Policy
23:33 – HB 3115 and Public Camping Rules
25:21 – Why HB 3115 Still Has Not Been Repealed
27:18 – Oregon’s Homelessness Spending Problem
30:21 – Manufactured Homes and Naturally Affordable Housing
31:25 – Nonprofits Following the Money
32:53 – Oregon Homelessness Up While Nation Improves
33:36 – Unsheltered Child Homelessness in Oregon
43:55 – Housing Supply and the Cost of Living
47:00 – Oregon Falling Short of Housing Targets
47:45 – Housing as an Economic Issue
51:57 – How Housing Costs Hurt Young Families
52:48 – What Is the Solution?
54:23 – Oregon’s Land Use System
55:26 – One-Size-Fits-All Land Use Policy
57:39 – EFU Land, Rural Housing, and Common Sense
1:07:08 – Final Thoughts