Portland, Oregon’s Missing Middle Housing Gap Is Creating a New Kind of Developer-Landowner Partnership

Portland set a goal of adding 6,000 housing units per year through 2032. Last year, the city managed 1,652. That shortfall has created space for development models that don’t follow the conventional acquire-permit-build sequence. One emerging approach skips the land acquisition step entirely by partnering directly with existing landowners who have buildable space but no […]