Comments on: Home building begins to rebound /news/2010/01/13/home-building-begins-to-rebound-bldgc/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 By: Bruce Bartlett /news/2010/01/13/home-building-begins-to-rebound-bldgc/#comment-9255 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:44:16 +0000 /?p=45494#comment-9255 I chair a land use citizen participation group in the Cedar Mill/Cedar Hills area of Washington County. The most common land use action at this time is the extension of approved development applications. This week I drove around the area and saw close to 100 residential lots ready for building but not *one* new house starting. While there are houses being sold, the demand for additional homes to be built does not seem to be manifesting yet.

On a related note, we have spent the last 50 years building houses for families: 2 story, multi-bedroom and fairly expensive houses targetted at the post-WWII generation. This generation now is aging and their housing needs are very different from the housing inventory that exists. Perhaps this is the key time to re-evaluate the kinds of homes being built, the types of communities created in the process and how to improve the overall security of the population.

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