DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: A LOOK AT HOUSING IN WEST LINN IF YOU - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: A LOOK AT HOUSING IN WEST LINN IF YOU BELIEVE THAT DIVERSITY STRENGTHENS A COMMUNITY, THEN HOUSING AVAILABILITY AND AFFORDABILITY ARE CRITICAL ISSUES. M u l t i - C i t y Housing in the news E q u i
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West Linn needs a broader range of housing types with a wider range of price points than are currently available in the city’s housing stock. From: Clackamas County Regional Housing Needs Analysis
Housing Availability
West Linn is forecast to need 998 new housing units over the next 20 years, but the available land for building in the city can only provide for 341 new units.
West Linn lacks enough available unbuilt land to meet the forecasted population changes
- ver the next 20 years
Housing Availability
Data from: Clackamas County Regional Housing Needs Analysis – Sept. 2019
Almost 60% of new housing demand in West Linn is forecast to be medium to high density residential.
Future housing demand is forecast to require more multi-family housing
Housing Availability
Data from: Clackamas County Regional Housing Needs Analysis – Sept. 2019
In the next 20 years, West Linn needs 575 units of medium to high density housing. We can
- nly accommodate 69 units on
land available today.
Today 78 % of West Linn’s housing is single family detached
Housing Availability
Data from: Clackamas County Regional Housing Needs Analysis – Sept. 2019
51% percent of West Linn’s renters are cost burdened and about 26% percent of West Linn’s homeowners are cost burdened.
Cost Burden Definition: paying 30%
- r more of your income on housing costs
Housing Affordability
Data from: Clackamas County Regional Housing Needs Analysis – Sept. 2019
A household can start to afford West Linn’s median home sale prices at about 165% of West Linn’s median household income level
The median home sales price in West Linn is $552,500
Housing Affordability
Data from: Clackamas County Regional Housing Needs Analysis – Sept. 2019
Subsidized Housing:
- West Linn – 10 units
- Wilsonville – 449 units
- Oregon City – 610 units