How one apartment building in Portland seeks to tackle climate change, affordable housing

When it’s complete, the complex will offer 105 units, all of them affordable housing. It will be Oregon’s tallest mass-timber affordable housing building.

PORTLAND, Ore. —

At the corner of Northeast 99th Avenue and Glisan, something new is taking shape. 

From the outside, the Timberview VIII apartment building doesn’t look so different from its contemporaries. The sides are clad with moisture barrier. Construction elevators ferry crews between floors. The sounds of power tools are ubiquitous. 

But, there are a few things that set this apartment building apart from others like it. 

“When completed, this will be the tallest mass timber residence in

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