Across much of Oregon, people are feeling the housing crunch

Across much of Oregon, people are feeling the housing crunch: BEND — Oregon has become a desirable place to live, with droves of people moving to the state in the Pacific Northwest. But the availability of housing has not kept up. From villages on the rugged coastline, to Portland, to towns near the mountains and in Oregon’s famed forests, people are in desperate need of affordable rental housing as rates keep going up and rentals become scarcer.