Daniel Kaven sat down with KGW to discuss the current barriers to affordable housing in Portland:
“On the top floor of a modern North Portland high rise, architects work against a difficult production process for one of the city’s greatest needs.
“Housing is extremely important, and housing is in short supply,” said Daniel Kaven, co-founder of Willian Kaven Architecture and author of Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape. His company specializes in housing development, including apartment complexes with some units set aside for low-income tenants. “The process is really slow and cumbersome currently.”
Watch the segment HERE.
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