It is hard to imagine that it has been a month since the fires.

On my own street, a third of the houses are gone. And of the homes remaining, half are still uninhabitable because of damaged wells, melted wiring, or smoke damage. Across the district 300 units of workforce or retirement housing have been lost in a region that sorely needs housing and workers. The best news is that no one died in the Echo Mountain Fire thanks to the lifesaving work of our first responders.

These are real people and real losses. It is the most significant impact and loss Oregon has ever experienced.

9 fatalities and 3 people missing.

2,159 people being sheltered.

6,835 people registered for assistance with $14.5 million approved so far.

Approximately 1 million acres burned.

In an earlier newsletter, I talked about the problem of beginning to clean-up. Oregon is working with federal and local partners to safely address ash and debris. Since two of three residences lost locally and across the state are manufactured homes, we first face the expensive and time-consuming problem of checking for asbestos, insulation, and plastics contaminants. Removing fire debris is a two-step cleanup process. Step 1 is clearing properties of household hazardous waste to minimize exposure to the public and our water supplies. Step 2 is removal of ash, debris and burned-out structures.

STEP 1: Household hazardous waste removal No cost to property owner.

Once a property owner completes a Right of Entry (ROE) form with their county, crews will evaluate the property for any overhead hazards (impacted trees) or other physical hazards and conduct air monitoring and visual observations to identify locations of household hazardous waste.

Crews will then remove those items from the property for safe disposal.

STEP 2: Ash and debris removal

Cleanup crews then will remove burned-out structurespossibly including building foundationsash and other debris.

When this step is complete, property owners will be able to begin the rebuilding process.

The State Debris Management Task Force is overseeing a coordinated effort by federal, state and local government agencies to address hazardous waste removal. The task force consists of the Office of Emergency Management, Oregon Department of Transportation and Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. State, county and federal partners are actively working to develop funding and implementation options for ash and debris removal.

With the General Election looming, Ive also been asked how people receive their ballot if their mail has been disrupted or their address temporarily changed.

Ballots will start being mailed October 14. You can pick up all of your mail (including ballots once they are mailed) at the post office that serves your permanent residence address. You can also register a temporary mailing address at oregonvotes.gov/myvote. Contact your county election office for additional options.

If you submit a change of address with the Post Office, ballots be not be forwarded. This is one of the security features designed to prohibit voter fraud. You must inform election officials of your temporary address.

You do not need to re-register to vote if you are living somewhere temporarily. You just need to let election officials know where to mail your ballot. If mail cannot be delivered to your home or mailbox, it will be held at your local post office and you can pick it up there.

The Oregon Health Authority on Monday reported 288 coronavirus cases, with confirmed or suspected infections rising to their highest levels in nearly two months. There were no new fatalities.

Oregons daily average for the past week is 294 cases, the highest its been since August 11. Thats in line with new state modeling that projected cases would likely continue to climb this month.

Oregon has reported 35,049 confirmed or presumed infections and 572 deaths, among the lowest totals in the nation. To date, 707,292 Oregonians have been tested.

Most of our district has now moved into Phase 2 of Governor Browns reopening guidelines. Wider reopening includes recreational sports, venues like movie theaters, bowling alleys, and arcades, and increased in-office work. Indoor social get-togethers are capped at 10 people with physical distancing.

Yes it is confusing. Does a restaurant or bar close at ten or midnight? What is considered a "Gathering" verses an "Indoor Social Get-Together"? How many people are allowed in each category?

I'm hearing from many of you about the overwhelming stress, anxiety, and ongoing struggles of schooling from home, wildfire impacts, smoke, civil unrest, and, well, this pandemic. My staff and I are individually struggling at times with the enormity of it all right along with you. Please use the mental health resources at your disposal, including the helpline below.

SAMHSAs Disaster Distress Helpline provides 24/7, 365-day-a-year crisis counseling and support to people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters. Call SAMHSAs Disaster Distress Helpline at 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 to speak to a trained crisis counselor.

Oregon Safe and Strong has a wealth of resources for you, your loved ones, including how to help those close to you if you're able. There are options from texting, phone calls, and email to reach out for help when needed.

NAMI Oregon, the National Alliance of Mental Health, maintains a toll-free information Helpline for individuals living with mental illness and their family members. Call 800-343-6264 or 503-230-8009.

Please feel free to email or call my office with any feedback, questions, or concerns. My office is here to help you find the resources you may need and navigate the state bureaucracies.

As always, my very best wishes and gratitude for the privilege of representing you.

Representative David Gomberg

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Oregon says people who lost homes or suffered other damage from the wildfires that erupted across the state this month should contact their insurance companies immediately to begin their claims.

But they should be prepared for a long process as they work to get their payouts and start to rebuild.

Authorities say the fires that erupted earlier this month burned more than 1 million acres in Oregon in just one week, and theyre still burning. Homeowners and firefighters are just starting to tally the damage. At least nine people died and hundreds of homes burned.

As evacuation zones open up, people are beginning to return to their properties to discover homes, barns and vehicles destroyed. Brad Hilliard, spokesman for Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services, said it will take them time to tally just what theyve lost and more time to recoup that loss as insurers work to cope with the blazes' unprecedented toll.

We encourage people to take their time with the process and also understand that your insurance company is going to need time to handle things, Hilliard said. Because theyre handling a large number of claims across a number of states.

Fires this month have spanned Washington, Oregon and California. The total financial losses figure to be staggering, after fires devastated the southern Oregon communities of Phoenix and Talent. The Beachie Creek fire east of Salem destroyed at least 470 homes. Dozens more homes were lost to fires in Clackamas County.

California wildfires in November 2018 destroyed 14,000 homes and generated $11.4 billion in insurance claims within two months.

This years blazes on the West Coast appear to have done far less damage, but the total devastation is plainly severe.

In Oregon, homeowner insurance policies typically cover wildfires in the same way they would cover a typical house fire, but Hilliard said autos even if they were in a homes garage require separate coverage.

The state offers several pieces of advice on how to begin the claims process:

Notify insurance companies immediately about evacuation and damage. Policies will often cover short-term housing for people in evacuation zones, and will typically provide long-term housing while homeowners rebuild.

Ask about advances on your claim to pay for supplies and equipment to get by. Even if it takes a long time to settle a claim, advance payments may be available quickly.

Save receipts and keep a running list of whats been lost. Keep a paper and pen handy to make notes when things spring to mind, and look through old photos and videos that might help jog your memory. Figure out how long your insurance company will give you to provide a complete list.

Photograph damaged items but dont throw them out until a claims adjuster has seen them. People living in manufactured homes can visit a state website for ownership documentation that may have been destroyed in the fire.

Contact your mortgage company to learn how it manages insurance payments.

Its too soon to know how this months' blazes will affect insurance rates in places where wildfires burned, or elsewhere in Oregons wildland areas, Hilliard said. But the NW Insurance Council said Friday that the state is preparing to issue an emergency order to prohibit insurers from canceling insurance policies in fire affected areas, or because of a wildfire claim.

The state will also require insurers allow a grace period of premium payments on policies in areas affected by the wildfire.

Oregon fields 1,400 insurance and financial complaints a year, according to Hilliard, who said the state can help mediate when disputes arise between policyholders and their insurance carrier.

On Friday, Hilliard said people who suffered wildfire losses should resist any pressure to settle their claims before theyre ready, and to carefully catalog what theyve lost and what it was worth as they prepare to rebuild.

It takes time to work through that, Hilliard said, to rebuild and replace what was lost.

-- Mike Rogoway |mrogoway@oregonian.com| twitter:@rogoway|

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Our office burned down last Tuesday. The little green and white rented bungalow along Route 99 was filled with art, houseplants, laughter, and sometimes tears. It was a meeting place for Latinx youth to have coffee and organize climate justice events in their community. We built folding desks so we could fill the space with volunteers while campaigning against the fracked gas pipeline a Canadian company is trying to ram through Oregons forests. Now those walls and desks are all rubble, still hot to the touch.

As part of Rogue Climate, a local climate justice organization with an office in Phoenix, Oregon, weve fought for years not just against fossil fuel projects changing our climate but also to demand justice for those in our community most affected by that warming: Latinx essential workers and their families facing hazardous working conditions and Covid-19, low-income rural residents plagued by rolling blackouts, and tribal members watching the salmon runs vital to their diet and culture dwindle in warming rivers.

On Tuesday, the Almeda fire raging through Southern Oregon took out the very base weve used for those fights. Many of our staff and volunteers have been evacuated; some have lost their homes. In the past few days, weve been out on the streets in the thick, gray smoke, getting food, water, cell phone chargers, hand sanitizer, tents, and blankets to people who have lost everything they owned.

Climate change has doubled the number of fires in the West in one generation: Even if the Almeda fire was started by a human, it was fanned by the exceptionally hot, dry, and windy conditions that climate change is producing. Scientists have known about the link for decades. The Environmental Protection Agency warned Congress in 1989 that the incidence of catastrophic wildfires will increase in U.S. forests with higher temperatures.

1989 was 31 years ago, before either of us was born. And yet our government has done almost nothing to stop the pollution warming the world and fueling the fires. The fracking and drilling has continued. The CEO of Pembina, the company that wants to run an explosive fracked gas pipeline through our home to the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal, emitting nearly 40 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, took home $7 million in 2018. In contrast, the median household income in Phoenix is $41,753 a year. In nearby Talent, it is $33,244. The fire ran through both towns along Route 99, torching apartment buildings, mobile and manufactured homes. Thousands are unhoused. Two are dead.

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Amid a series of established Democratic endorsements, Drake Buckmans voice lifts as he talks about a lesser known group. He landed the support of the Federation of Manufactured Home Owners of Florida.

Its an organization that represents people who live in manufactured homes in the parks , and we have hundreds of them here, he said. They are an integral part of the community.

The Sarasota Democrat hopes that type of endorsement makes a difference as he runs against Republican Fiona McFarland in House District 72.

Hes unrolling endorsements as he fights for attention on what could be one of Floridas tightest House races. Hes lined up many of the usual suspects in Democratic politics: Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club and the Sarasota County Jewish Caucus. But he still faces a level of skepticism among forecasters and pundits on whether he has the raw resources to defend the seat.

The jurisdiction is one of the places where Democrats find themselves on defense this cycle, though thats not a complete surprise.

Democrat Margaret Good represents the district now, having flipped the seat in a 2018 Special Election and defended it in the last General Election. But that last race came down to fewer than 1,200 votes between her and Republican Ray Pilon. Both her House campaigns cost more than half a million dollars, reportedly one of the reasons she decided this year to run for Congress.

But Buckman believes he can compete for far less.

I dont know why you need a quarter of a million to win this race, he said. I say this as someone who has been in business here. I have met payroll. I have met budgets. I understand this district. I dont know why you need more than $100,000 to win this election.

McFarland, meanwhile, spent more than $200,000 during the Republican primary, and eked a win by just 266 votes out of 17,779 cast. For the moment, she lags Buckman in cash on hand, but shes raised $254,713 in total to Buckmans $82,295.

A strong fundraising period for McFarland post-primary prompted national forecaster CNalysis this weekend to shift the race to tilt Republican instead of tossup when it put the entire state House in the Safe Republican column. Indeed, the district is the only House jurisdiction in the state in which that forecaster predicts a change in party control; several other districts are still marked tossup.

But Buckman still feels confident. Hes been in regular communication with Florida House Victory, he said, and would welcome greater state investment. But mostly he feels confident he has more individual contributors from within the district.

Hes had 728 donors to McFarlands 543, with his average donation at $121 to her $518. Three of the Democrats donations come through political committees while 18 of the Republicans checks are listed from PACs. And 621 of Buckmans donations originate from Florida addresses while just 270 of McFarlands do the same.

He dismisses institutional support shes receiving, including a recent shout out by the Presidents son.

I dont think Donald Trump, Jr. is registered here, he said. To me, thats an endorsement from one New York Republican who doesnt live in the district to another New York Republican who doesnt live in the district.

Notably, McFarland was criticized in the primary for renting an apartment in House District 72 but owning property in neighboring Manatee County, though she stressed at the time shes living in Sarasota.

Regardless, Buckman plans in November to prove any cynics wrong.

We are going to win, he said.

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Jannie Ledard was home when police knocked at the door Tuesday morning.

Get out as quickly as possible, they told her.

Outside, dark clouds gathered in the distance. The sky was turning black.

Ledard, 82, rushed out, leaving everything behind.

It came like a huge wave, she said, sitting in front of the charred remains of her home of 10 years.

Within hours, everything Ledard owned was reduced to ash.

The ferocious Almeda fire, fueled by strong winds, sped north from Ashland and within hours decimated the small Jackson County communities of Talent and Phoenix, which lie just a few miles apart along Oregon 99 between Ashland and Medford.

The power remains out in both towns. Drinking water is shut off. They are effectively shut down.

Officials in Phoenix estimate the fire torched 1,000 residences, a mix of mobile or manufactured homes, apartments and homes. To the south in Talent, city leaders figure as many as 600 homes were lost.

In all, leaders say more than 2,000 residents, many of them elderly and low-income, lost their homes this week.

Rich Tyler of the Oregon State Fire Marshals Office confirmed Thursday evening two people had died from the Almeda fire one body was found Wednesday morning and one Wednesday evening. He said both deaths are under investigation.

We have no word on casualties, said Sandra Spelliscy, Talent city manager. We are just starting to get calls about I am worried about my mom, I havent heard from her. I suspect because of the severity of the fire and how quickly it moved that we are going to find that we lost some folks.

Swaths of the two towns, which combined have a population of about 11,000, were burned beyond recognition.

The fire started late Tuesday morning in Ashland and whipped north following Bear Creek. Manufactured home parks along or near the creek were hit particularly hard.

Where whole neighborhoods once stood, only gray ash remains.

It reminds me of the time I spent in Iraq, said Phoenix City Manager Eric Swanson, a U.S. Air Force veteran.

The fire left a haphazard trail of damage. Some streets and neighborhoods sit untouched. Others disintegrated to piles of ash.

Phoenix Mayor Chris Luz said his house remains standing.

The home next to mine is gone, he said. The 22 homes next to that are gone as well and when I say gone, I mean burned to the ground.

Swanson said the extent of the loss is incalculable.

People not only had possessions ... they had memories, life experiences, families, those kinds of things that were attached to these places, he said.

Dozens of businesses, many of them mom-and-pop places, like barber shops and taverns, were destroyed.

On a drive along Oregon 99, the artery that forms the commercial heart of both towns, Luz pulled over in front of Pucks Donuts. The shop was gone, its cheerful pastel-colored sign the only thing left.

This is the best donut shop in the county, Luz said. Its a place where people gather and have coffee and donuts.

Acres of land are now covered in charred remnants of entire neighborhoods. Cars were melted into the streets. Burned frames of stoves and washing machines marked the spots where kitchens and laundry rooms once stood. Lawn ornaments, like small stone Buddhas and frogs, were all that remained of front lawns and backyard gardens.

Peggy Raymond, 67, returned Thursday to Bear Lake Estates, the manufactured home park she called home for two decades.

Its totally leveled, she said, her hands still shaking from the sight.

She was at Harry & David, where she works as a fruit packer, when the fire broke out and couldnt get home in time to save her beloved dogs, Fritz and Cuddles.

She lost everything, she said. Her only possessions left: the clothes she had on when she left for work Tuesday and her car.

A week and a half ago, she canceled her home insurance because she could no longer afford it.

I have absolutely nothing, she said.

Acrid air still hung heavy across the region as wildfires continued to burn in Northern California and in southern Oregon.

Statewide, an unprecedented rash of wildfires has burned nearly 900,000 acres and prompted widespread evacuations.

About 3,000 firefighters are working the blazes, which stretch from southern Oregon to Clackamas County. Tens of thousands of Oregon residents have been forced to flee their homes. The five largest fires are each 5% contained or less.

An arson investigation is underway where human remains were found, the Ashland police chief said Thursday.

Ledard also returned Thursday to the spot where her home once stood. She sat down as her granddaughter, Eavy Barbieux, 23, carefully sifted through the fine ash for traces of her grandmothers belongings.

Her hands gloved, Barbieux reclaimed a single earring, a mug her brother made, two cast-iron skillets and a dish the color of daffodils ordinary household items that now seem like small treasures.

Thats all that was left.

We had five minutes to pack, her grandmother said, looking on, so we didnt pack anything.

Jayati Ramakrishnan of The Oregonian/OregonLive contributed to this report.

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Global Manufactured Housing Market: Overview

Manufactured housing is a type of readymade housing solution that involves assembly in factories and then transport to sites of use. It is noteworthy here that more and more people are opting for these homes over traditional ones because of lesser manufacturing costs, huge savings on time spent in moving in and easy financing available to these homes as compared to traditional homes.House prices rose by 5% in the Euro area (EA19) and by 5.5% in the first quarter of 2020 compared with the same quarter of the previous year. Since traditional housing options are growing increasingly expensive, innovations such as manufactured housing will stand out in the near future. Transparency Market Research projects a sturdy growth rate for the global manufactured housing market over the period of 2020 to 2030.

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The manufactured housing market is consolidated on a regional level owing to presence of a small number of manufacturers in mostly developed regions of the world. Top-tier players operating in global manufactured housing market are listed below:

These manufacturers are expected to grow and expand into the current global scenario which is drawing away from traditional, handmade housing and is ready to accept these cheaper and more viable housing options. To tap into these opportunities, players are opting for measures that fall across multiple points of the organic and inorganic continuum.

In North American manufactured housing market, the United States of America holds a lions share, whereas Canada features lower in the demand for readymade housing. Market growth in the country is brought about by presence of many top players, who hold significant positions in the market, both local and global.It is pertinent to note here that Canada has not spent much on housing construction in the recent past; hence the manufactured housing market in the country is expected to struggle for growth. However, a recovery is projected in the future, owing to the relaxed immigration policies of Canada leading to the influx of a large number of foreign migrants looking for cheap homes.

The Asia Pacific region yet projects sluggish growth due to a conservative outlook towards housing and an attachment to old, traditional family residential spaces. Also, since space is at a premium in these regions, high rise apartments are due to find more acceptance than manufactured houses. However, with growing adoption, even if in other countries, would emerge growing trust, leading to growth in the regional market.

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Residents in the Twin Cities east metro area enduring toxic forever chemicals polluting their water could eventually get access to municipal water supplies, high-tech filters or even new water treatment plants.

These solutions are part of a new $700 million drinking water protection plan Minnesota officials unveiled Thursday aimed at providing longer-term relief in an area where bottled water is a way of life for some residents.

The plan offers three options for removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from the water coming out of faucets in Washington County. They involve hooking homes up to municipal water supplies, digging new wells, building treatment plants and installing granular activated carbon filters.

The plan still isnt final its open for a 45-day comment period but its a major milestone in the $850 million settlement Minnesota reached with 3M Co. in 2018 over the man-made chemicals.

3M manufactured the original PFAS chemicals at its plant in Cottage Grove for years, and dumped PFAS-laced waste in four landfills around the county. Thats the main source of a growing plume of contaminated groundwater covering a 150-square-mile area. The pollutants dont break down in the environment and have affected the drinking water supplies for nearly 200,000 residents.

Some types of PFAS have been linked to serious diseases and reproductive problems.

Cottage Grove resident Myron Bailey issued a statement saying the city finally has a long-term solution.

Today is a day for our city to celebrate, he said.

Bailey said city leaders strongly support Option 2, but also support Option 1. In both options, groundwater, as opposed to surface waters such as the Mississippi River or St. Croix River, remains the drinking water source.

Option 1 is the preferred choice of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the state agencies that produced the plan and who control the settlement money.

That option focuses on treating water to a threshold that is more protective than the states safety threshold for PFAS, a health index of 1 based on the concentration of the substances in the water. Water readings above that trigger a health advisory. Option 1 would lower the PFAS in affected drinking water to a health index of 0.5.

Wells with readings below that threshold wouldnt be eligible for treatment or a replacement hookup to a municipal supply. In those cases, the cost for any treatment would fall on the homeowner.

Option 1 funds the operation and maintenance of public water systems in the contaminated zone for about 40 years, funds granular activated carbon filters for 236 private wells for 100 years, and provides 2,062 homes with new connections to municipal water supplies.

Option 2 would treat for PFAS to an even more protective level of 0.3 meaning more water would be eligible for treatment but would have to cut back on other things, such as the number of years public water systems could be funded.

Its trade-offs, said MPCA Assistant Commissioner Kirk Koudelka.

State health officials have long maintained that they havent seen a pattern of health effects from the PFAS in the east metro drinking water. In a media presentation Thursday, Jim Kelly, manager of the environmental health division at the Minnesota Department of Health, reiterated that.

We dont see anything unusual that we can tie definitely to exposure to these chemicals, Kelly said.

Kelly noted that the study of PFAS is relatively new.

Option 1 also sets aside $38 million for future contingencies, the most of the three options. Those include the plume of contaminated groundwater shifting, or deciding that more types of PFAS in the water require a health safety limit and controls.

The extra security is one reason that Cottage Grove resident Dave Schulenberg backs Option 1.

We dont know what the full outcome of this PFAS contamination is going to be, Schulenberg said in an interview. There needs to be some money set aside for that what-if in 20, 30, 40 years.

Schulenberg, executive director of the Minnesota Water Well Association, worked on the Citizen and Business Group, one of three work groups that met monthly for two years helping shape the plan.

Bob Fossum, a watershed district project manager who lives in Lake Elmo and who also worked on the Citizen and Business Group, said he hasnt yet decided which option is best. He called it an insanely complicated issue.

Its been a long process with a lot of complicated analysis and evaluation of the various trade-offs, Fossum said. Its the one shot we have at getting this problem dealt with. Theres not going to be another $750 million after this is gone.

The MPCA and DNR will be holding four virtual public information meetings on the plan scheduled for Sept. 22 and Sept. 23. from 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. each day. More information can be found at: 3msettlement.state.mn.us/DrinkingWaterSupply.

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Manufactured Homes and Mobile Homes Market: Overview

The drive for Manufactured Homes and Mobile Homes market stems from the traction that affordable homes have gathered in worldwide populations. The growing popularity of prefabricated homes is a key trend that has bolstered the expansion of the Manufactured Homes and Mobile Homes market. Manufactured, modular, and mobile homes all are different terms, technically. The key differentiating parameters are design and construction; body and frame requirements; thermal protection; plumbing and electrical fire safety; and energy efficiency.

The contours of the global manufactured homes, modular homes, and mobile market has witnessed the rise of site-built homes that are made to comply to regional, local, and national regulations and building codes. One such code is Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act in the U.S. Key application areas are commercial and residential sectors.

The drive for affordable housing for people who need to move frequently has propelled the demand of manufactured and mobile homes. The increasing trend of making modular and manufactured homes customized has spurred growth in the Manufactured Homes and Mobile Homes market. Modular homes are especially attractive due to the fact that they produce less waste since they are made in climate controlled home building facilities. The key advantages underpinning the popularity are energy savings, shorter build times, and robust build.

Advances being made in safety standards are boosting the growth potential for businesses in the Manufactured Homes and Mobile Homes market. These homes also reduce weather-related delays.

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Companies in the Manufactured Homes and Mobile Homes market are aiming to offer home buyers a mix of site-built and off-site homes. Most players are expected to gain a foothold by adopting state-of-the-art design and home building technologies. Several players are fervently meeting the needs of strength and durability of manufactured homes by using quality materials. Top players are cautious of meeting all local and regional housing building codes. They are employing trained craftsmen also.

Several players in the Manufactured Homes and Mobile Homes market are attracting prospective dwellers with cost-efficient solutions. They are keen on ensuring that all stages of offs-site building process is closely monitored. Top players are leveraging their technical expertise to customize the homes to meet the changing demands of consumers, particularly in relation to flooring, cabinetry, and exterior finish.

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Is it unrealistic, in the shortening days of a divisive election year, to expect the two parties to take time out of their packed schedules to address the affordable housing crisis? Perhaps, but there has already been progress toward action on housing in 2020.

For example, the Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Act (H.R. 4351), introduced by Reps. Denny HeckDennis (Denny) Lynn HeckExclusive: Guccifer 2.0 hacked memos expand on Pennsylvania House races Heck enjoys second political wind Incoming lawmaker feeling a bit overwhelmed MORE (D-Wash.) and Trey HollingsworthJoseph (Trey) Albert HollingsworthWill Congress make a significant move on housing affordability? Overnight Health Care: Trump pressure on health agencies risks undermining public trust | Top FDA spokeswoman ousted after 11 days OVERNIGHT ENERGY: 21 states sue White House over rollback of bedrock environmental law | Administration faces rough week in court | Trump hits Biden on climate at convention MORE (R-Ind.), passed the House by a voice vote in March. Senate consideration of the bill, or a serious effort by that chamber to constructively address artificially high housing costs, would send a message of unified congressional support for urgently needed investment in Americas housing stock.

There is a growing left-right consensus on housing affordability: Overregulation is the chief barrier to affordable, unsubsidized housing within reach of working families. Protecting the right to build on ones own land is the solution, and could help get us to the point where direct government assistance is only needed by families with little or no income.

Congress, of course, has neither the desire nor the authority to take over local zoning powers. But Washington has long influenced housing market regulation in many ways, through innovation, vocal leadership and financial incentives. The Department of Commercepromoted restrictive zoningaround the country in 1924. Theearly Federal Housing Administration subsidized low-density regulationsthat favored expensive suburban-style planning (not to mention imposing strict racial segregation).

Today, Congress should take leadership to promote more worthy ideals and elevate best practices from around the country. Local leaders should see clearly that their national representatives are on the side of inclusive, market-led housing construction. Such an effort will require more two-way communication with federally-funded cities, which must use federal grants responsibly. Given the central role of zoning in local policy, communities receiving Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds must at least take stock of their regulatory apparatus (as the YIMBY Act would require).

Each party now appears to recognize a vital ideal more commonly associated with the other side. For Democrats, this means affirming the leading role of markets in delivering housing affordability. They can draw inspiration from the Austin suburbs, where legal scholarRobert Ellickson foundthat the majority of developable tracts are zoned to allow small-lot single family houses or multifamily homes. Those local choices open opportunities to Texans of diverse income levels and facilitate integration as the Austin economy booms.

Republicans, for their part, have too often ignored housing policy altogether. They are beginning to take a symbolic stand on the content of local decisions and let locally elected Republicans know that there are some things that blue cities get right. Buffalo, New York, for example,facilitated reinvestmentin its time-worn downtown byremoving parking minimumsand making it simpler to repurpose old buildings. That policy innovation wouldbe applicableto commercial spaces left vacant by the current recession.

The YIMBY Act does go beyond expressing the sense of Congress that inclusive, market-led housing investment is good for America. The language of the bill requires each HUD grantee which includes all cities of at least 50,000 people, plus some counties and smaller cities to report on whether or not they have adopted each of 22 policies, such as allowing manufactured housing and reducing parking minimums. The new requirement is likely to be grafted into anexisting online portal. Municipalities can also report that they plan to adopt a policy or that it is inapplicable.

It is fair to criticize the YIMBY Act for failing to address the real problems with HUDs grants. For example, the funding formula for Community Development Block Grants isout of syncwith the programs priorities and has been untouched since 1977. A more ambitious reform would update funding formulae and withdraw HUDs support from communities that do not share its goals.

Instead, Congress is following the business adage, You get what you measure. Decades of interaction with HUD have attuned local officials to some concerns. Many existing reporting requirements for HUD funding are on activities, such as on environmental protections and neighborhood input,known to discourage investment. By contrast, HUD has no existing requirement that communities consider or accommodate potential future residents, the vibrancy of the local economy or local fiscal sustainability, all of which are considerations that lean toward reinvestment. The YIMBY Act puts a little of HUDs weight but perhaps not enough on the pro-investment side of the scales.

Congress is taking seriously HUDs role as a source of information and ideas for local governments. Adding reporting on property rights protections for housing construction is likely, at the margin, to encourage grantees to give greater consideration to the ways they can enable reinvestment by expanding and protecting property rights.

Salim Furthis a senior research fellow and director of the Urbanity Project with theMercatusCenter at George Mason University.

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Will Congress make a significant move on housing affordability? - The Hill