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Up for Growth launches Housing Policy & Affordability Calculator in Portland, Oregon

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Our Mission

Up for Growth improves the quality of life for working families and individuals and creates communities that are accessible and affordable for all by promoting more housing close to jobs, efficient transportation, and in high opportunity neighborhoods.

Discriminatory housing policies like redlining, exclusionary zoning, and intentional and severe infrastructure neglect in black neighborhoods have been systematically employed at every level of government for decades. 

https://www.upforgrowth.org/news/housing-equity-cannot-exist-without-racial-equity

As the federal government considers sweeping legislation to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, Up for Growth Action is working to ensure that housing priorities are included in the bills.

https://www.upforgrowth.org/covid-19

For decades, federal policies effectively mandated where minorities could live, almost always relegating them to the neighborhoods least accessible to the kinds of jobs, services, and amenities necessary to create upward mobility. 

https://www.upforgrowth.org/news/yimby-act-can-be-catalyst-housing-equity

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Our membership includes housing experts and advocates, major employers, economists, transit and planning practitioners, environmentalists, chambers of commerce, municipal leaders, social equity champions, multifamily and single-family builders, lenders, investors, and many others. We encourage you to join today to ensure your voice, your views, and your lived experience are a part of this important conversation.

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Latest News and Insights

News and Insights provides the latest from Up for Growth, in additional to current news stories, polls, studies and other relevant data on housing policy, efficient land use, and supply-side community investment promotion, with appropriate context and engaging perspective from Up for Growth, offering fresh and regular entry points into the smart growth conversation.

The Looming Rent Crisis Will Not Solve Itself

For the past few months, Up for Growth Action has worked to support inclusion of federal emergency rental assistance in COVID relief legislation. With last week’s expiration of expanded unemployment

Housing for Every American Needs More than Reform: Public Comments Call for Federal Investment

Two weeks ago, we introduced the first part in our series reviewing responses to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD)’s Request for Information (RFI) as part of the

As July Comes to a Close, the Rent Is Still Due for Millions of Americans

For months, Up for Growth Action has focused on advocating emergency rental assistance for those suffering from the economic and public health impacts of COVID-19. In May, we warned of

Federal Register Comments Highlight Need for Both National and Local Housing Action

This post is the first of a two-part series in which we review responses to the administration’s Request for Information (RFI) as part of the work of the White House

Up for Growth Unveils Housing Policy and Affordability Calculator for Portland, Oregon

PORTLAND, OR – Up for Growth released its Portland Housing Policy and Affordability Calculator (HPAC) today via a virtual Zoom meeting hosted by Urban Land Institute (ULI) Northwest. Portland follows

The YIMBY Act Can Be a Catalyst for Housing Equity

The Black Lives Matter movement and the related protests across the country have led many to rethink, or think more deeply about, issues of racial and social equity in our
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