Having less money due to housing costs can lead to sacrificing health care, nutritious food, child care, internet access, and transportation in order to pay rent.
Speaker Eugene continues as a severely rent-burdened city. At the Planning Commission Dec. 2, Senior Planner Leah Rausch:
Leah Rausch We are going to talk a little bit about severe rent burden in Eugene this evening. I’m joined by Amber Friedman from the Planning Division, as well as Genevieve Middleton from the Community Development Division…
So each year, the state requires cities with high rates of severe rent burden to hold a public meeting. Eugene has exceeded this threshold for many years, where more than 25% of renter households experience ‘severe cost burden.’ And that severe cost burden is paying more than 50% of their income on their housing costs…