Update: Excel Renter Cost Burden Lookup by Income: State of Oregon, All Oregon Counties and Places.

Update: I added cost burden data for the State of Oregon in this workbook.  I also changed the default geographies displayed in first worksheet to include the state of Oregon and the ACS data link in the second workbook.
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I have put together an Excel workbook HERE and embedded below that includes a worksheet that 

• Allows you to select up to four places or counties (or state of Oregon) to see key renter cost burden data side by side, focused on those with incomes BELOW and above $50,000.[Default is set to State of Oregon, cities of Portland and Gresham, and Multnomah county.
• Includes counts of households as well as the ratio of cost burdened renter households below $50,000 income compared to renter households with incomes above $50,000.
• Includes (to the right) graphs that illustrate the share of all cost burdened renter households grouped by incomes BELOW and above $50,000 for the cities and counties selected. 

A second worksheet in the workbook includes ALL cost burden data with additional income groupings along with home owner cost burdens; a link to the ACS 2008-2012 data source is included. 






Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Planned Speakers for NHC Realtors Portland Workforce Housing Conference on Dec 1st.

Got an email today with listing of planned speakers for this conference in Portland.

Keynote address from Bryn Sopko of the University of Portland; Other planned speakers include: 

•     Randi DeHollander, Vintage Mortgage Group
•     Samantha DeKoven, Metropolitan Planning Council
•     Jan Ellingson, National Association of REALTORS®
•     Peter Hainley, CASA of Oregon
•     Lori Isenberg, North Idaho Housing Coalition
•     Jennifer Larsen, HomeStreet Bank
•     Leah Logan, National Housing Conference
•     Jenny Pakula, Oregon Association of REALTORS®
•     Milly Seibel, Tri-Valley Housing Opportunity Center
•     Margaret Van Vliet, Department of Housing and Community Services, State of Oregon
•     Chris Venne, Community Frameworks

My prior post HERE has registration details. 

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

7 Year Follow Up of Public Housing Jobs-Plus Program Shows Positive Results in Three Locations.

A just published March 2010 policy brief from the MDRC (Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation) HERE, focused on three communities that had fully implemented a Jobs-Plus program, showed that residents had continued gains in earnings over a 7 year study period. This was a follow up to an earlier 2005 MDRC study HERE of all Jobs-Plus sites, including Seattle, that showed mixed results.

From the 2010 Policy Brief:

the Jobs-Plus model in those [three] locations caused a 16 percent increase in average annual earnings over the full seven years (an average gain of $1,300 per year) for non disabled, working age public housing residents. Moreover, the earnings gains, which were large while Jobs-Plus operated, continued during each of the three years after the demonstration ended. And during both the program and post program periods, the effects were found for many different kinds of residents.....
The annual cost of operating the on-site features of a Jobs-Plus program (services, rent incentives, and community support for work) is in the range of $1,800 per person.

A MDRC project website with more materials about Job-Plus program is HERE.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.