Housing Production Strategy

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Hillsboro is a diverse community with residents of all ages, incomes, and abilities who have a variety of housing needs.

The City is currently conducting a holistic analysis to support housing production in Hillsboro to meet those needs. The Housing Production Strategy is a strategic and flexible tool that can assess policies, strategies, programs, funding tools, equity, partnerships and more.

The Housing Production Strategy aims to help Hillsboro meet the current and future housing needs of its diverse residents and builds upon the work completed through the Housing Needs Analysis project.

Upcoming Public Hearing

A public hearing will be held on December 3rd at 7pm at the Hillsboro Civic Center. You may also join virtually via Zoom. See the City Council meeting page for more information.

We are excited to share the public comment draft of the Hillsboro Housing Production Strategy, a guiding planning document designed to promote housing production, affordability, and choice.

This strategy outlines key goals, policies, and actions the City can take to support housing production over the next several years.

The draft Housing Production Strategy document is available here. Please take some time to review the proposed strategies and provide your thoughts.

We encourage you to attend and share your thoughts.

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Project Vision

Strategize increased housing production of a variety of housing types, choice, and differing levels of affordability to ensure the supply of housing meets the current and future needs of Hillsboro.

Background

The Housing Production Strategy will include specific actions the City plans to take, like changing regulations or offering financial incentives, to encourage the development of the necessary housing types identified in the Housing Needs Analysis Report 2023 , along with a timeline for adopting and executing each strategy.

Some of the actions, tools, and plans could include looking at different policy areas such as:

Increasing housing development in multi-dwelling and residential mixed-use zones, and along TV Highway corridor’s future bus rapid transit line.
Ensuring Hillsboro has enough land to support a variety of housing types and choices.
Increasing affordable housing in established and new residential areas to foster mixed income neighborhoods.
Supporting homeownership opportunities for homebuyers, including low-income and first-time buyers.
Increasing rental housing development for large households.

Increasing development of accessible housing for seniors and people with disabilities.

Desired Outcomes

The final Housing Production Strategy document will include a detailed description of the contextualized housing needs, summaries of existing housing policies and regulations, and final proposed strategies and new measures.

The Housing Production Strategy will also include how the final proposed strategies help to achieve:

fair and equitable housing outcomes,
increase housing production, and
advance fair housing, supportive services and community partnerships.

The Housing Production Strategy will also include the City’s plan for monitoring progress on the housing production strategies.

Project Timeline

The HPS is estimated to take place between January and December 2024.

Updated HPS Timeline

Important Dates

April 10 - Planning Commission work session
April 16 – City Council work session
June 18 – City Council work session
October 8 – Planning Commission work session
October 15 – City Council work session
December 3 – City Council Public Hearing & approval by resolution

Members of the public can attend the December 3rd public hearing in person in the Civic Center Auditorium or virtually Zoom. Details on how to provide public comment can be found at here.

City Council Regular Session - 7pm - Civic Center Auditorium/Zoom Teleconference

Zoom Teleconference
Phone: 1-253-215-8782 or 1-301-715-8592
Meeting ID: 851 4863 9488
Password: 932487
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85148639488?pwd=RzNHQ0ZzVFBNN3h5Q04xQnJjaGJsQT09

Listening & Engaging Our Community

The City is listening and engaging with community members to help inform the Housing Production Strategy.

Outreach and engagement input gathered from the Housing Needs Analysis 2023 will be carried forward into the Housing Production Strategy process.

This next phase in City housing related outreach and engagement will help inform:

How to set up conversations with Council about potential strategies and tools
Identify pros and cons for each strategy and tool
Set up evaluation criteria to determine how they fit into the Housing Production Strategy vision.

Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)

This committee will be made up of housing developers, nonprofit developers, permanent supportive housing service providers, property managers, real estate professionals, school district representative, a large employer representative, two members from the Hillsboro Planning Commission, and a previous member of the Hillsboro Civic Leadership Academy serving as a community member representative.

Meetings will be held virtually and made available for public viewing. Meeting dates and details will be shared on this website and sent out to the email notification list.

Focus Groups

The City will conduct a total of six focus groups, three focus groups in English and three in Spanish. Participants in the focus group will be targeted to include members of historically marginalized communities.

Public at Large

Any member of the public wishing to provide input on the Housing Production Strategy work can submit a comment through the comment box below, contact project staff, or attend City Council meetings to provide public comment.

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