The new Lloyd apartments’ bike parking is already full – maybe too full
With the building 80% occupied, bike parking is already spilling into an empty retail space.
The Real Estate Beat
Welcome to our special coverage of how real estate and housing are closely intertwined with bicycling in Portland. We’ll track the latest bike-friendly developments (both commercial and residential) and share our analysis of how low-car trends are impacting the places we live and work. The Real Estate Beat is edited and produced by our News Editor Michael Andersen.
As Portland’s housing shortage boils over, its mandatory car-housing policy seems safe
A particular type of expensive machine can almost always be stored for free but every other object in society is expected to pay market rate.
How much should parking permits cost? Four ways the city could find out
Portland is on course to ignore a suggestion from its consultant that elected officials should never set the price of parking.
The Oregonian blames ‘hipster hovels,’ not massive housing shortage, for rising rents
From 2006 to 2014, Multnomah County’s population grew 79 percent faster than its housing supply.
At rally, renters’ group calls for mandatory one-year notice of big rent hikes
The Community Alliance of Tenants declared a “renters’ state of emergency” Tuesday.
Burnside Bridgehead project includes possible bike-through retail window
Developer Jeff Pickhardt said he envisions a curb cut facing the curve of Couch Street that would let people on bikes roll into the plaza.
Task force likes proposal to restrict main-street residents’ curbside parking rights
The goal is to lead developers of buildings on commercial corridors to include more on-site auto parking in their new buildings.
Portland’s next great bike neighborhood may be its most unexpected triumph yet
In 20 years, this seems likely to be the single most important hub of bicycling in the United States.
Democrats in state Senate join Republicans to kill neighborhood income diversity bill
Though the bill would have affected only condos and other owner-occupied homes, some rallied around it as a seemingly achievable way to preserve income diversity in bike-friendly areas like Southeast Division Street.(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland) A bill that would have let Oregon cities require some condominiums in some new housing projects to be sold for below-market prices … Read more
Why are these 11 buildings illegal in most of Portland?
They’re cheaper to build, less controversial, more energy-efficient and more family-friendly. So why do we ban them?
Portland’s housing supply still isn’t keeping up with population, but it’s falling behind more slowly
After eight years of failing to add housing units nearly as fast as new residents were arriving, Multnomah County nearly kept pace in 2014.
Portland’s most affordable neighborhoods to bike from (for now)
A tally of median home prices per neighborhood ranked by the time it takes to bike to the city center.