{"id":3596,"date":"2025-08-01T18:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:21:21","slug":"governor-tina-kotek-signs-landmark-middle-housing-legislation-at-century-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/governor-tina-kotek-signs-landmark-middle-housing-legislation-at-century-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Tina Kotek Signs Landmark Middle Housing Legislation at Century Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"3602\" src=\"https:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-072825-9-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-072825-9-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-072825-9-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-072825-9-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-072825-9-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-072825-9-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Century Commons<\/strong> &#8211; A Habitat For Humanity Community<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"3601\" src=\"https:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-Gov-Kotek-Affordable-Housing-Bills-072825-10-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-Gov-Kotek-Affordable-Housing-Bills-072825-10-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-Gov-Kotek-Affordable-Housing-Bills-072825-10-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-Gov-Kotek-Affordable-Housing-Bills-072825-10-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-Gov-Kotek-Affordable-Housing-Bills-072825-10-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/HH-CC-Gov-Kotek-Affordable-Housing-Bills-072825-10-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Governor Tina Kotek<\/strong> &#8211; Displaying the five bills signed to support Oregon Development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 28, 2025, Governor Tina Kotek visited Century Commons, a new 18-unit affordable housing development in Hillsboro built by Habitat for Humanity-Portland Region, to sign into law five bills aimed at boosting Oregon\u2019s supply of \u201cmiddle housing.\u201d These new laws are designed to accelerate the construction of housing types such as duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, and modular homes, offering more affordable options for Oregon families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new legislation is part of a bigger strategy to address Oregon\u2019s housing crisis by making it easier and faster for developers and nonprofit organizations to build reasonably priced homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westlake is proud to support Oregon\u2019s Middle Housing Initiative, working in partnership with Habitat for Humanity and other affordable housing developers to create accessible, community-centered housing solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westlake\u2019s role in these projects often begins with a complex land use component. Ken Sandblast, Director of Planning and one of Westlake\u2019s principal owners, is a long-time champion of affordable housing options. He has guided scores of affordable home projects in his career, including fifteen Habitat developments since he joined Westlake in 2015.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken describes himself as a \u201cProfessional Germinator\u201d, someone who works in partnership with public planning departments, nonprofit leaders, and private partners to turn community-driven ideas into tangible, thriving neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Century Commons, where Westlake has provided comprehensive land use, civil engineering, surveying, and construction administration since 2018, is an example of what\u2019s possible when we come together with a shared purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 28, 2025, Governor Tina Kotek visited Century Commons, a new 18-unit affordable housing development in Hillsboro built by Habitat for Humanity-Portland Region, to sign into law five bills aimed at boosting Oregon\u2019s supply of \u201cmiddle housing.\u201d These new laws are designed to accelerate the construction of housing types such as duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,116,66,25,56,55,21,14],"tags":[82,96],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-housing","category-community-involvement","category-construction-surveying","category-development-survey","category-projects-civil-engineering","category-projects-land-use-planning","category-residential-development","category-site-development-redevelopment","tag-community-involvement","tag-land-use-planning"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}