In 2019, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 2001 – the "middle housing" law. This new law will bring wide-ranging changes to construction of new housing in Oregon, but has received little press so far.
The goal of HB 2001 is to reduce barriers to the construction of "middle housing," which is defined as duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, townhouses and cottage clusters. A townhouse is a single unit on its own lot, sharing a common wall with at least one neighboring unit; a cottage cluster…
