East Metro Region Housing Conference

Date: Friday, January 17, 2025, 8 am - 1 pm

Location: Mt. Hood Community College, Dining Hall, 26000 SE Stark St, AC 2000, Gresham, Oregon

Thank you for your interest in the first-ever East Metro Housing Conference, brought to you by the East Metro Leaders. We are honored by your willingness to bring to the table your ideas and solutions for our acute housing needs. This event is free and open to everyone.

• Get leaders from different groups talking to each other in the same room about expanding our housing supply;

• Break down barriers and silos to find solutions;

• Learn about new funding sources and innovative ideas that are being used successfully in other parts of Oregon

When: Friday, January 17, 2025, from 8:30 am to 1 pm

Catered continental breakfast & full lunch will be served

Where: Mount Hood Community College Dining Hall, 26000 SE Stark Street, AC (Academic Center) 2000. This is the main building on MHCC’s campus, at the far right (south) end, by the pond. Parking is nearby and available in Lots A & B.

What: Sessions that explore our collective housing resources, efforts from our region’s governing units, home ownership, houselessness, housing infrastructure, alternative housing, and rural housing needs. Active audience participation and feedback, including real-time surveys. We hope to have a second conference in February 2025, and then twice per year.

Who: Brought to you by the East Metro Leaders*, with active participation from local, regional, and state planning and governing officials and staffers; private sector interests like developers, banks and private equity; conservation groups; neighborhood & community groups; and concerned members of the public. We welcome all voices to participate in finding solutions to our housing needs.

Sponsors:

Metro

*Who are the East Metro Leaders?

The East Metro Leaders are a diverse group of business, education, health care, community, faith, and political leaders from Boring, Corbett, Damascus, Fairview, Gresham, Sandy, Troutdale, Wood Village and some of the unincorporated areas of Multnomah and Clackamas counties. Together we cover a region with over 210,000 people, which, if incorporated, would be the second largest city in Oregon.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Mt. Hood Community College, 26000 Southeast Stark Street, Gresham, United States