Oregon Governor Tina Kotek’s Housing Production Advisory Council is in to its final weeks developing recommendations towards creating 36,000 housing starts per year. Mid-Columbia Housing Authority Executive Director Joel Madsen has been on the group’s Land Availability and Finance subcommittees. He says one proposal that is making it through the process is to leverage state-owned and leased lands available for housing production, and they are also looking at publicly-owned lands in general. The advisory council is to have its recommendations to the governor finished by the end of the year.