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Portland State University Car Camping Research Project
Background
Rapidly increasing housing costs are considered to be a primary driver of housing insecurity and homelessness across Oregon. Coupled with stagnating wages, the resulting housing cost burdening has particularly impacted low-income households across the state. In Newberg, roughly 38% of households are considered to be cost burdened, paying more than 30% of their monthly income on housing expenses. Renters in Newberg are particularly susceptible, with 56% of renter households being housing cost burdened. The destabilizing effects of cost burdening can quickly deteriorate any sense of residential stability and force people into untenable living situations. According to Yamhill Community Action Partnership’s (YCAP) 2020 Point in Time report, 227 people in Yamhill County were determined to be living in unsheltered locations including their personal vehicles.
With this knowledge, Newberg City Council approved, in November 2020, researching more about car camping programs as part of the 5-Year Housing Work Program during the 2021-2022 fiscal year. Significantly this research has the objective of gathering more data, it was not requested or commissioned with a specific objective in mind except to educate everyone further on these issues.
To get assistance with this research, city staff responded to a request for proposal (RFP) issued by the Portland State University Toulan School of Urban and Regional Planning. This RFP was for planning assistance from students in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) program as part of the Workshop Project program. The Workshop Project is a class for 2nd year Masters Students in the MURP program and is similar to a thesis project. The City was lucky to have been chosen for this request on planning assistance around car camping and has been working with a group of six Masters students over the last five months.
Timeline & Project Scope
Timeline
- November 2020 – City Council approves 5-Year Housing Work Program
- December 2021 – City staff responds to RFP for PSU planning assistance on car camping
- February 2022 – Start of the project with the PSU Masters student team
- February – June 2022 – Ongoing project research, specific tasks listed below in Project Scope
- June 21, 2022 – PSU Masters Student Presentation to City Council and Planning Commission
PSU Project Scope
- Task 1: Existing Conditions Research (February – May 2022)
- Task 2: Stakeholder Engagement (March – May 2022)
- Task 3: Land Use and Code Research (February – May 2022)
- Task 4: Synthesis of Data and Options/Next Steps (April – May 2022)
- Task 5: Joint City Council and Planning Commission Presentation (June 21, 2022)
- PSU Masters students present and discuss their research and findings in a joint work session
- No formal adoptions of any kind will be happening during this work session, this presentation is information only
