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assumptions about the dynamics of markets and policies than from the specific estimates of future demand and need. Thus, we start our housing analysis with a framework for thinking about housing and residential markets, and how public policy affects those markets. 1.1.1 Housing demand versus need The language of Goal 10 and ORS 197.296 refers to housing need: it requires communities to provide needed housing types for households at all income levels. Goal 10's broad definition of need covers all households—from those with no home to those with second homes. State policy does not make a clear distinction between need and demand. Following is our definition, which we believe to be consistent with definitions in state policy: Housing need can be defined broadly or narrowly. The broad definition is based on the mandate of Goal 10 that requires communities to plan for housing that meets the needs of households at all income levels. Goal 10, though it addresses housing, emphasizes the impacts on the households that need that housing. Since everyone needs shelter, Goal 10 requires that a jurisdiction address, at some level, how every household will be affected by the housing market over a 20 -year period. Public agencies that provide housing assistance (primarily the Department of Housing and Urban Development - HUD, and the Oregon Housing and Community Services Department - HCS) define housing need more narrowly. For them, households in need do not include most of the households that can purchase or rent housing at an "affordable" price, consistent with the requirements of their household characteristics. Households that cannot find and afford such housing have need: they are either unhoused, in housing of substandard condition, overcrowded, or paying more than their income and federal standards say they can afford. • Housing market demand is what households demonstrate they are willing to purchase in the market place. Growth in population means growth in the number of households and implies an increase in demand for housing units. That demand is met, to the extent it is, primarily by the construction of new housing units by the private sector based on its judgments about the types of housing that will be absorbed by the market. ORS 197.296 includes a market demand component: buildable land needs analyses must consider the density and mix of housing developed over the previous five years or since their most recent periodic review, whichever is greater. In concept, what got built in that five-year period was the Part 11 — Eugene Housing Needs Analysis ECONorthwest Page 9