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Reasons Why

• Nearly eight in 10 Oregon families with the lowest incomes pay more than half their income for housing.

• Only one in four households with the lowest incomes in Oregon has access to existing affordable and available rental units.

• One in seven Oregonians and more than one in six children lived in poverty in 2009.

• A worker earning minimum wage in Oregon had to work more than ten hours a day, seven days a week just to afford a two bedroom apartment in Oregon.

• If the average household in a project-based Section 8 unit in Oregon had to pay the state median gross rent, they would only have $29 per month left for necessities such as food and healthcare.

• More than one in ten Oregonians were unemployed during 2010.

Source: 2011 Network for Oregon Affordable Housing

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April 2011 Report America’s Rental Housing: Meeting Challenges, Building on Opportunities
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
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April 2011 Article on HUD’s Preservation Efforts
Affordable Housing Finance
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April 2010 Article on Preservation of HUD Assisted Housing
Congressional Research Service
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October 2009 Article on the Case for Preservation
Affordable Housing Finance
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September 2009 Report on Affordable Housing near Transit and the 50+ Population
Preserving Affordability and Access in Livable Communities: A report by AARP and the National Housing Trust
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January 2009 Report on Ongoing Housing Preservation Needs
Oregon Housing and Community Services
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2008 Report on Poverty
Oregon Housing and Community Services
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2008 Preservation Projection
Oregon Housing and Community Services
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Comparison of Occupations, Wages and Housing Costs by County
Oregon Housing Alliance
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September 19, 2008
Low-Income Housing: Another crisis looming?
TIME
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