Three Portland councilors have embarked on a trip to study Austrian housing policy with their chiefs of staff, but taxpayers remain in the dark on how much it will cost.
The Oregonian/OregonLive first reported last month that Mitch Green, Candace Avalos and Jamie Dunphy planned to join a cohort traveling abroad to learn more about Vienna’s social housing policy, lauded in progressive housing circles as a way to bring middle class residents into affordable flats.
The elected officials planned to pay for their travel with public money, from funds allocated to each city councilor’s office…