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Tools

The Housing Production Strategy (HPS) Menu of Actions details actions to  support local governments in selecting actions that best address their identified housing needs. The list of actions is sortable by category and mechanism, as well as the types, locations, and characteristics of housing they may be able to support.  

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The Community Assets & Harms Mapping Tool shows how different neighborhoods experience access to community assets or benefits and exposure to harms or risks. Oregon developed this tool to support fair housing efforts statewide and to help local governments meet Housing Production Strategy requirements. This resource is one of many the State of Oregon has developed to operationalize Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and the pursuit of fair housing choice for all Oregonians.  

The Equitable Engagement Toolkit offers worksheets, checklists, external resources, in depth explanations about promising equitable engagement practices and much more to provide local governments, consultants, and community‑based organizations design more inclusive planning processes and meet state equitable engagement requirements. The toolkit is adaptable for communities of any size and supports state requirements for the Housing Production Strategy and Climate‑Friendly and Equitable Communities programs.  The toolkit is complemented by an online data mapping tool – the Community Explorer – to support demographic analysis across Oregon communities to inform equitable engagement program design. A web map tool is also available to create and print maps of the demographic makeup of communities. 

​DLCD’s Housing Data Repository​ provides datasets and resources to support local governments in completing their Goal 10 housing work. For Contextualized Housing Need compliance, all materials in this repository are considered available, recent, and relevant.​

Resources and Information

​DLCD, in partnership with the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association (OAPA), hosted a four‑part webinar series in summer 2026 highlighting major updates to Oregon's housing planning framework under Statewide Planning Goals 10 (Housing) and 14 (Urbanization). The series introduces the administrative rule updates implementing the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis (OHNA) policy established through House Bill 2001 (2023)– a significant modernization designed to strengthen how communities assess housing needs, plan for capacity, and support housing production, affordability, and fair housing choice. These recorded webinars offer foundational context and practical insights for practitioners directly involved in housing planning and for anyone interested in understanding Oregon's evolving housing policy landscape.

The following factsheets and explainers break down the key elements of housing planning requirements under Statewide Planning Goals 10 – Housing and 14 – Urbanization for Housing. These resources provide guidance on the major steps, tools, and policies that guide how communities plan for housing needs and manage future growth. 

Housing Production Dashboard 

The Oregon Housing Needs Analysis (OHNA) is the state’s methodology for identifying how much housing each region and community will need over the next 20 years. It reviews existing housing, measures current shortages, and allocates future housing needs to every local government. Cities with populations of 10,000 or more, Portland Metro area counties, and cities and communities in Tillamook County also receive specific housing production targets to plan more acutely for housing in the near term. 

Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) maintains the Housing Production Dashboard, which tracks each local government’s annual progress. The dashboard reports: 

  • Each local government’s 20-year allocated housing need and near-term housing production target 
  • Progress toward each local government’s total housing production target 
  • Progress toward the portion of the total housing production target that represented regulated affordable housing units (homes affordable to households with incomes that are below 80% of the Area Median Income or “AMI”) 
  • Comparisons with the region and peer cities with similar market conditions 

This tool helps communities monitor whether housing production is keeping pace with identified housing needs. 

Annual Housing Production Survey  

Each local government that receives a housing production target is required to report annually on its housing production. For more information on this requirement please see the Housing Reporting page.  

Housing Equity Indicator Dashboard 

>Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) produces the state’s Housing Equity Indicators Dashboard, an annually updated online tool that provides data on population demographics, housing outcomes, and other geographic and housing-related trends for communities subject to OHNA rules.  

The dashboard displays the following: 

  • Housing outcomes, such as cost burden and availability of housing units to own or to rent, and housing condition for various demographics including race or ethnicity, disability status, English proficiency, and age  
  • Severe Rent Burden - Residential tenants who spend more than 50% of their household income on gross rent for housing  
  • Risk of gentrification and displacement  
  • Segregation and Concentration - Housing segregation by race and income  
  • Housing Types and Accessible Units - It also includes other indicators identified by the department to help communities understand and address housing inequities. 

Visit the Housing Equity Indicator Dashboard

Dashboard and Survey Update Webinar | May 11, 2026 ​
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Housing Model Codes

The Oregon Legislature directed the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) to adopt model codes that encourage housing production in Oregon communities. LCDC adopted the first version of these model codes in 2025. They are designed to make housing production easier for local governments and housing developers. 

Prefabricated and Modular Housing Model Code and Audit Workbook 

This guidance includes resources to assist local governments in updating their development codes to facilitate construction of prefabricated and modular housing. The document is formatted as an Audit Workbook, which is intended to help local government staff identify and address regulatory barriers to prefabricated/modular housing in their codes. It also provides Model Code language that can be adopted into local development codes to better facilitate this construction type. ​​

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Audit Workbook
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Visit the DLCD Model Code webpage for more in​formation.

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Grants 

Housing Planning Assistance Grants  

DLCD generally provides grants on a biennial cycle, meaning grant application windows generally open in the summer of the odd-numbered years. There are exceptions to this when the Oregon legislature appropriates funds for specific grants outside of the typical funding cycle or for other specific circumstances.  

Grants support direct housing planning work as well as associated work in service of housing production, affordability, and choice such as public facilities planning for housing. Grants can also support implementation of local policies and programs that are part of a local government’s housing planning efforts and/or focus on compliance with state housing laws.  

For specific information on whether the application period for housing grants, or for any other grants at the agency, is currently open or other information related to past and future grant opportunities, please see DLCD’s Grants and Funding webpage.