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SB 1521 — Prohibits cities and counties within the Portland MSA from enforcing requirements that developers provide affordable units in multiunit dwellings unless the city or county first calculates the developers' average expected losses due to providing affordable housing and the city or county offsets those losses.

Congress · introduced 2026-01-14

Digest: This Act makes Portland-area cities and counties make up the usual costs to a builder when making the builder add low-cost homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Prohibits cities and counties within the Portland MSA from enforcing requirements that developers provide affordable units in multiunit dwellings unless the city or county first calculates the developers' average expected losses due to providing affordable housing and the city or county offsets those losses. Becomes operative for rental housing on January 1, 2028. Becomes operative for all housing on January 1, 2029.

Latest action: — Chapter Number Assigned

Sponsors

No sponsorships on file.

Action timeline

  1. · state_upper — Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
  2. · state_upper — Referred to Housing and Development.
  3. · state_upper — Public Hearing held.
  4. · state_upper — Work Session held.
  5. · state_upper — Recommendation: Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.)
  6. · state_upper — Second reading.
  7. · state_upper — Third reading. Carried by Pham. Passed.
  8. · state_lower — First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
  9. · state_lower — Referred to Rules.
  10. · state_lower — Public Hearing held.
  11. · state_lower — Work Session held.
  12. · state_lower — Recommendation: Do pass.
  13. · state_lower — Second reading.
  14. · state_lower — Third reading. Carried by Gamba. Passed.
  15. · state_upper — President signed.
  16. · state_lower — Speaker signed.
  17. · state_upper — Governor signed.
  18. · state_upper — Chapter 79, 2026 Laws.
  19. · state_upper — Effective date, January 1, 2027.

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Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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