Severe Rent Burden Community Meeting

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 - 5:30pm

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On Wednesday December 10^th from 5:30-7:00pm, the City and its partners hosted a meeting focused on rent burden causes and potential solutions.

In 2018, the State Legislature passed HB 4006. The purpose of this legislation was to direct Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) to assess and identify cities with populations over 10,000 where greater than 25% of renter households pay more than 50% of monthly income on rent (severe rent burden), and then to notify those cities of their status.
In 2024, McMinnville was designated as a severely-rent-burdened community for the first time.
In 2025, McMinnville was again designated as a severely-rent-burdened community.

Meeting Details

Location: The event was hosted at the Yamhill County Housing Authority “Stratus Village Apartments” community room (2450 SE Stratus Avenue)
Hybrid Option: The meeting was made available via Zoom
Format: There was an opening presentation, and then everyone broke out into an “open house” style meeting with several stations set up by the City and partner agencies/organizations regarding housing resources.
Translation services were available for Spanish speakers
Activities for children, and snacks and refreshments were provided