![Oregon Live: “Portland City Council approves ‘regulatory relief,’ tax break package to promote housing construction”](https://housingsolutionscoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/zack-spear-ZB_Ns0hVZNk-unsplash-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg)
The Portland City Council approved several new policies this week aimed at lowering the cost of building new homes. Councilmembers approved what they called a “regulatory relief” package, a measure to loosen 15 zoning and permitting requirements for new housing. The council also approved new tax breaks to reduce the cost of complying with the city’s onerous inclusionary-zoning mandates. These mandates, enacted in 2016, are widely acknowledged to have slowed residential development in the city. – Oregon Live