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Oregon's legislature just passed Bill HB 2138:

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/06/oregon-middle-housing-bill-passes-legislature-expands-2019-reforms.html

In recent years, Oregon did 2 things to make housing more affordable :

Oregon reformed zoning.

Most american cities require single individual homes, the most expensive form of housing. You want to build something else? Good luck. They will try to stop you. Oregon changed zoning rules to make it easier to build duplexes, triplexes and condos.

Oregon banned parking requirements

Most american cities ban new buildings that don't add parking. If you want to build housing without parking, it's illegal. Basically, buyers and renters are forced to pay for parking spots, whether they like it or not. Even if they don't have a car. Even if they are blind. Oregon ended mandatory parking requirements. Eliminating parking requirements doesn't mean 0 parking. It just means it's up to buyers and sellers now.

These 2 reforms delivered some good results:

https://www.streetroots.org/news/2023/04/12/parking-reform-secret-new-oregon-housing

https://www.sightline.org/2025/06/04/oregons-zoning-reforms-are-working-but-they-need-some-upgrades/

But unfortunately, they didn't go far enough.

This new bill makes it significantly easier to build housing.

For the first time in my life, I can say Oregon has a realistic chance to fix the housing crisis.

Let's hope Bill HB 2138 is signed. This was long overdue. πŸŽ‰πŸ₯³πŸŽŠ

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

That's great news, although I'm skeptical about the second item. I lived in Munich for a couple of years, and the parking situation in large metropolitan cities in Western Europe is atrocious; given the option, apartment developers will happily push the cost of developing parking onto the city, which means everyone is passing for parking anyway through taxes.