Vancouver, WA Falling Short of Housing Needs — 536 Units Per Year Below Target

Vancouver leaders discussed their 2025 housing report at a recent city council meeting, revealing the city needs to build the equivalent of a full waterfront development every single year just to keep pace with population growth — yet an average of 536 fewer affordable housing units are built each year than the city actually needs. Limited available land is a key challenge, with remaining infill parcels inside city limits often being environmentally restrictive, requiring costly mitigations and lengthy environmental processes that make development significantly more expensive than traditional greenfield sites.

Source: OPB Read the full story: https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/07/vancouver-continues-to-fall-short-of-housing-development-needs/