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Financial details of Oregon’s spending on affordable housing murky, ProPublica investigation reveals
Financial details of Oregon’s spending on affordable housing murky, ProPublica investigation reveals
Financial details of Oregon’s spending on affordable housing murky, ProPublica investigation reveals

Published on: 08/25/2026

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Oregon has given developers $1.4 billion to fund affordable housing as the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled.

But thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, the state doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.

Rob Davis, an investigative reporter at ProPublica, joins us with the story.

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