Tribune finds support for limiting car use by microapartment dwellers
Here’s a pretty simple solution for complaints that new microapartment buildings will swamp on-street parking.
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.
Talking past the opposition: Ben Ross’s advice to advocates for city life
People who speak out against investments in density, biking and public transit may claim to be motivated by things like traffic, parking or crime. But are they?
Maybe this is why you can’t afford to rent in the central city
In two-thirds of Portland’s central seven miles, it’s illegal to build a multi-family building.
Can new-fangled mortgages finance Portland’s tiny-home boom?
Portland’s enthusiasm for building small and tiny homes has been so abrupt, so unusual and so locally unique that the home mortgage industry hasn’t figured out how to take advantage of it.
Gallery: Here’s how Portlanders store their bikes at home
Portlanders have known for years that we’re blessed with some of the best public and commercial bike parking in the country. But our private bike parking goes unsung.
Photo collection: How do you park your bike at home?
A residential bike parking shelter in Southeast Portland. Here on BikePortland’s Real Estate Beat, we write a lot about commercial and apartment/condo bike parking. But we’ve never covered the bike parking Portlanders are probably best at: cool ways to store bikes at single-family homes. Let’s change that. Snap a photo of your setup and we’ll … Read more
How Oregon’s unequal tax laws deter density where it’s needed most
Oregon’s property tax system rewards developers who build new apartment buildings in Gresham while driving up the price of new units in inner Northeast.
New 268-apartment project at Skidmore and Williams will have a Dutch ‘woonerf’ space
One of the biggest lots on inner North Portland’s Williams Avenue corridor would become one of the city’s biggest new housing-retail projects under a proposal made public last week.
In some central Portland neighborhoods, one in 10 new homes is now tiny
In some central Portland neighborhoods, more than one in 10 new dwellings is now an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU.
New apartments may slow rise of central-city rents in 2014, expert says
People’s seemingly boundless hunger to live in Portland, especially its bike-friendly eastside grid, will keep the apartment construction market booming in 2014.
Portland, model city: Six skeptical questions for author Julie Campoli
Writer Julie Campoli.(Photos courtesy Campoli) Julie Campoli’s mission is to convince the world that Portland is, more or less, right. In her books, Campoli makes the case that density is desirable, mixed-use neighborhoods are the best ones, and designing streets for walking and biking is good for everyone — even if it reduces auto travel … Read more
After city code change, Overlook developer upgrades bike & car parking and moves upmarket
One of the first test cases for Portland’s new auto parking rules is about to break ground.