The city of Eugene has made no secret of its goal: build more housing downtown.
But with the city’s Multi-Unit Property Tax Exemption, or MUPTE, capped at 1,500 units, the public still can’t easily see whether approvals of tax breaks actually turn into apartments.
“Starts” — whether a project has broken ground — are the leading indicator of the program’s success. Right now there is no simple public readout showing how many projects reach the first permit that allows above-ground construction, or how long that takes…