After more than a year of construction, a 77-unit housing project to support students, employees, visiting scientists and others working and learning at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport is open and housing its first tenants.
Harborton Street Housing was created to address the problem of a workforce housing shortage in Newport and the surrounding community. Current vacancy rates in Lincoln County hover below 2%, and that lack of housing has been a constraint to recruiting students and scientists to Hatfield.
Sidney Noble is manager for student and campus services at Hatfield and says the new building helps fill a gap in local housing…