affordable housing
We Can’t Afford Metro’s Affordable Housing
by Randal O’Toole Affordable housing projects funded with Metro’s 2018 housing bond have wasted more than a billion dollars due to bad decisions made by Metro on how to spend that money. Metro’s single-minded focus on…
We Can’t Afford Metro’s Affordable Housing
by Randal O’Toole Affordable housing projects funded with Metro’s 2018 housing bond have wasted more than a billion dollars due to bad decisions made by Metro on how to spend that money. Metro’s single-minded focus on…
Portland’s “Affordable” Housing Averages $800 per Square Foot
By Randal O’Toole Note: This post is a sequel to Metro’s Plan for Making Housing More Expensive The average cost of “affordable” (meaning subsidized) housing in Portland is nearly $800 per square foot. The cost in the suburbs…
Cascade Quarterly Fall 2025
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Is Stein’s DCR making the same mistake?
Thanks to the failures of former Gov. Roy Cooper’s North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR), hundreds of families whose homes were destroyed by Hurricanes Matthew (2016) and Florence (2018) are still living in…
Restoring the American Dream Requires Restoring Property Rights
"If America is to remain a free country, then property must once again be treated as the sacred right it is, not a privilege handed out by government." For generations, Americans have crossed great expanses of…
Why Affordable Housing is Unaffordable
By Randal O’Toole Last week KGW news reported that Portland area rents are up 22 percent since pre-pandemic levels. We see it everywhere: so-called “affordable housing” costs have risen so quickly that even though cities and…
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