This paper chronicles the actions taken by the Oregon Legislature, the Oregon Department of Housing and Community Services and the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development to meet housing shortages in that state. These efforts include a Regional Housing Needs Analysis that will use...

The provision of public facilities and services is not an exciting planning topic because it deals with the details of supply, rather than the grander issues of economics, social equity and policy. Yet these details occupy an inordinate amount of time and attention by planners, elected...

In those places where plans are binding and are required to be coherent, the factual foundations of those plans, on which allocation of lands needed for housing, commerce and employment, are critical. Population projections are one foundation for determining needed lands and are necessary for...