Bach covers housing for The Oregonian/OregonLive. This op-ed is adapted from his forthcoming book, “High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West.” For much of high ...
Bend, a former mill town of about 20,000 people in the 1990s, grew to around 100,000 by 2025. Income inequality has also “surged” since 2019, according to Jonathan Taylor, the Central Oregon city’s ...