Monday, December 29, 2008

My DRAFT Analysis: Oregon "Shovel Ready" Projects in U.S. Conference of Mayor's Report Top $706 Million.

Clarification 1: Clarified that 2 housing projects I referenced were public housing projects only, I count 6 additional HUD CDBG projects that also reference housing, none of those were in Portland.

Found the US Conference of Mayor's "Shovel Ready" report HERE.

I put together a DRAFT Oregon summary with a count of $$, jobs, and cost per job by sector and Oregon city HERE as a PDF; it also includes a list of all Oregon projects. [PDF is 7 pages, print on legal paper, landscape].

My initial review indicates that there were only 2 public housing projects in Oregon, in Eugene (568 housing projects nationally); I found 27 HUD CDBG funded projects from Oregon cities (total of 3,253 nationally). Within the 27 HUD CDBG funded projects I count 6 projects that also reference housing, none of those were in Portland.


Funding required for 11,800 job in Oregon exceeds $706 Million; Average funding required per job in Oregon is $59,570; Lake Oswego funding required per job is tops in Oregon at $114,000+ for claimed 700 jobs for sewer project. [My preliminary conclusion is that Oregon funding required per job is less than national average].

Candidly, it was a real pain to put this draft together, Mayor's organization clearly did NOT go out of their way to make the data accessible to the public [only format is PDF, and it's a crappy PDF format at that]; expect other open government groups will eventually post entire report as Excel.

Will post more details and views of Oregon data in next few days, including any corrections to this DRAFT analysis.

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