OAR 660-039-0000: Purpose

The affordable housing pilot program is intended to: (1) Encourage local governments to provide an adequate supply of land within urban growth boundaries that is dedicated to affordable housing; (2) Encourage the development of affordable housing on land dedicated to affordable housing; (3) Protect land dedicated to affordable housing from conversion to other uses before or after the development of affordable housing; (4) Enhance public understanding of the relationship of land supply to the development of affordable and needed housing; and (5) Enhance public understanding of how cities can increase the amount of affordable and needed housing.