Bend affordable housing completed six months behind schedule

A worker enters one of the units at Daggett Townhomes, under construction on Bend’s east side in 2018. The apartments are reserved for families earning 60

% of the area median income.

The city of Bend, as well as housing and homeless advocates, are again asking the Bend Park & Recreation District to waive a fee that is charged to developers in an effort to promote more affordable housing.

These fees are called system development charges, or SDCs, which the park district charges to developers to pay for new parks and new trails . Last year, the district agreed to waive these fees for up to 400 units of affordable housing through 2022.

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IfNotNowWhen

new homes should carry the same load as existing homes; the fee waiver is a bad idea that should end

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