Rent Burden

Since 2018 Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) 813-112 among other actions requires cities including Woodburn with rent burdened populations to host by year’s end a meeting about the affordability of housing and report a list of attendees and a meeting summary to the legislature via Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS).  (It is OAR 813-112-0030 that directly required the meeting.) 

OAR 813-112-0010 defines severe rent burden as existing in cities where at least 25% of renter households spend more than half of household income on gross rent.

Woodburn with several other cities was first subject to the administrative rule following the Oregon Legislature passing House Bill 4006 (HB 4006) in 2018 and held the first annual meeting through the Planning Commission on December 13, 2018.