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Jennifer Bragar

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Jennifer Bragar is a partner at Tomasi Bragar DuBay and currently serves on the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors. She is also president of Housing Land Advocates, a nonprofit organization focused on land use policies that impact the ability to construct affordable housing.
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See No Evil: Oregon Retreats on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Initiative  

In 2019 and 2023, Oregon passed two laws requiring city housing plans to affirmatively further fair housing. But rather than using maps to inform policy, many Oregon cities are refraining from mapping to avoid confronting patterns of segregated housing.