She’s the panel’s first Black member, and she’s passionate about providing housing - including for marginalized Oregonians. She chairs the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission, which oversees the state’s growth system. Hallovà has a big stake in how cities - and the state - grow. “A big focus of what I’m interested in,” she says, “is how do we unlock the potential of a lot of the vacant land in our cities.” She imagines denser urban areas less divided by race and income. She wants to grow more homes in existing neighborhoods - lots of them.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a backyard or a weedy empty lot. Hallovà seems to see opportunity everywhere she looks. It frees up older buildings to essentially start reducing their pricing because they have competition from new buildings.” “The deal is, the more supply we have, the more affordability.
She even defends an old apartment building that’s seen better days.Īnyeley Hallovà chairs the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission, which oversees the state’s growth system. She praises a new eight-unit apartment building that is set back from the street so it doesn’t overwhelm the single-family homes on either side. She sees a lot more on the walk that pleases her. “It’s set in the back, beautiful architecture, well-scaled has a beautiful garden in front of it.” “You might not have noticed it if we walked by,” Hallovà says. She says she’s impressed by how seamlessly the new house was added to the existing property. She’s periodically stopped by as a second house was under construction in the backyard. Anyeley Hallovà and I are walking in her inner Northeast Portland neighborhood on a drizzly spring day.
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