Nathan Wildfire
Construction Labor Series Part Two: Workforce Growth Opportunities
Last week we framed up the construction labor challenge: we are currently short nearly 13,000 workers in Oregon to offset the current...
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Nathan Wildfire
- Aug 11
Construction Labor Series – Part One: Defining the Challenge
At the Missing Middle Housing Fund, we are laser focused on finding ways to reduce the time and cost to build housing for middle income...
Nathan Wildfire
- Jul 11
Financing the Missing Middle: Creative Solutions on the Rise
Financing housing development for the missing middle target has long been a challenge – it’s one of the core reasons why workforce...
Nathan Wildfire
- Jun 28
Newberg Workforce Housing RFP Winners Announced
Back in March we put out a call to all workforce housing innovators. The Strategic Economic Development Corporation (SEDCOR), Newberg...
Nathan Wildfire
- Jun 19
Products, Design, and Assembly: Innovation Round-up
Finding solutions that reduce build time and cost motivate us every day at the Missing Middle Housing Fund. We are 140,000 units short in...
Nathan Wildfire
- Jun 11
Workforce Housing Solutions Summit with Leadership Bend
Last week, the Missing Middle Housing Fund team traveled to Bend, OR, where we partnered with Leadership Bend and the Bend Chamber of...
Nathan Wildfire
- May 30
Workforce Housing Legislative Update – A Conversation with The Oregon iSector
It’s no secret that Oregon is facing a housing underproduction crisis. An approximately 140,000-unit deficit has been identified, placing...
Nathan Wildfire
- Apr 18
“Let’s Build Newberg” – A Workforce Housing Solutions Summit
Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” Nowhere was this...
Nathan Wildfire
- Mar 30
“Building Community”: Introducing Our Virtual Newsletter
Approximately two years ago, the Missing Middle Housing Fund was created with a very specific goal in mind – to connect innovators,...
Nathan Wildfire
- Mar 24
Driving Housing Production: Accelerating out of the turn
Everyone has a unique view about why solving the housing underproduction crisis should be so simple. A contractor will say it is about...
Nathan Wildfire
- Mar 17
The primary driver of homelessness? Housing underproduction and high costs
At the Missing Middle Housing Fund, we obsess about the reasons housing costs so much and takes so long to build – and we focus on the...
Nathan Wildfire
- Mar 7
Workforce Housing Innovation - A Sum Greater Than Its Parts
If you are a developer, entrepreneur, financier, manufacturer, builder, designer, or innovator, we want to hear from you. Members of the...
Nathan Wildfire
- Jun 9, 2022
Is the World Really Ending?
Reflections from the 2022 Pacific Northwest Commerce Chain Summit The many tentacled octopus of the housing ecosystem is so complex, and...
Nathan Wildfire
- Apr 29, 2022
Who will build the extra 10,000+ homes we need every year?
Help us create a Workforce Housing Consortium The Oregon Workforce and Talent Development Board hosted the 2022 Oregon Talent Summit on...
Nathan Wildfire
- Feb 4, 2022
Workforce Housing Innovation Competition update
Inspiring proposals from near & far Over the last month, we’ve been reviewing Phase I proposals for our Workforce Housing Innovation...
Nathan Wildfire
- Jan 26, 2022
PDX Executive Podcast features Missing Middle Housing Fund
Nathan Wildfire talks housing with Dan Bruton Back on January 6, I was interviewed by Dan Bruton for his PDX Executive Podcast. It was...
Nathan Wildfire
- Dec 23, 2021
All I want for Christmas is....
Our Housing Wish list Creative thinkers put forward proposals for our Workforce Housing Innovation Competition. Oregon doubles annual...
Nathan Wildfire
- Dec 17, 2021
Unintended Consequences: Housing Costs and Skilled Labor
How WE value career choices matters I vividly remember shop class. The smell of sawdust, the coldness of the steel tools, and the...
Nathan Wildfire
- Dec 10, 2021
Oregon Business and Government leadership supports Housing and Workforce Investment
Oregon Business Plan goals reflect MMHF's priorities This past Monday, the Oregon Business Plan (OBP) Summit showcased policy and...
Nathan Wildfire
- Nov 17, 2021
MMHF Launches Workforce Housing Innovation Competition
MMHF calls housing innovators, statewide, to bring forward innovations that reduce costs and time to build workforce housing GOAL: ...
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