The newly-enacted Oregon Housing Needs Analysis (OHNA) program is a tool that cities will be using to analyze their unique housing needs and develop local strategies to promote housing production, affordability, and choice.
As the OHNA program is implemented at the local level, 1000 Friends will continue to work with cities and towns, local developers, neighborhood groups, and more to help our communities fully leverage OHNA’s tools and resources—so more and more diverse housing gets built.
The deadlines for each city’s HCA and HPS are laid out in this schedule, and must be updated every 6 years (for greater Portland Metro area cities) or 8 years (for cities located outside of the greater Portland Metro area). Advocates should find out when their city’s HCA and HPS are due so they can plan ahead and organize community input.
Three critical planning toolkits for city officials
These toolkits provide a great deal of information for city officials and advocates looking to learn concrete strategies for improving housing affordability, choice, and equity without causing displacement. However, these toolkits have very technical language and might not be user-friendly for all audiences.
1. The Housing Production Strategy Toolkit documents and organizes strategies that cities may implement to incentivize, streamline, and guide new home production. This toolkit includes many potential policies, annotated with the following factors:
- Affordability target (market rate, workforce, affordable, or publicly subsidized).
- Tenure target (for rent or for sale).
- Impact on housing equity (direct or indirect impact).
- Impact on gentrification and displacement.
- Locations where it has been implemented.
2. Oregon’s Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) built an Anti-Displacement and Gentrification Toolkit, which provides more detailed information about how cities can analyze neighborhoods that are vulnerable to gentrification and implement targeted policies that improve outcomes across the community.
3. The Fair Housing Council of Oregon created Building Inclusive Communities: A Guide for Public Officials, which provides information about integrating fair housing into land use planning, including how to best integrate it into the Housing Production Strategy.
1000 Friends of Oregon has identified six core strategies to improve housing for all Oregonians.
Bringing Oregon closer to fulfilling the promise of statewide planning Goal 10—Housing for All—in every neighborhood.