Today is our Clark County and Vancouver roundup. Our summer newsletter includes a full research report on this market, edited by Aaron Kirk Douglas, our director of market intelligence. I'll walk you through the highlights. The full 47-page report, with charts and sourcing, is available free at hfore.com.

Two things today. First, Christine Drazan, the Republican nominee for Oregon governor, sat down with HFO co-founder Greg Frick to talk about her thoughts on the best ways to speed up adding more housing in Oregon. We're going to walk through what she said and what it means for people who own, build and finance apartments in this state. Then we'll turn to some of the best economic news Oregon has gotten in more than a year.

HFO Partner Greg Frick recently sat down with Mark Adams, managing director at Accruit, the third-largest qualified intermediary in the country and the largest independent of any title company to discuss 1031 exchanges.

Portland's largest apartment buildings face a potential carbon-compliance track, Washington's rent cap gets its first major court test, and a Multnomah County jury turns a $287 repair dispute into a $32,000 verdict. Listen for news updates that affect multifamily owners and developers!

Today we're talking money. Specifically, the debt and equity that makes every apartment deal possible. Our partner Greg Frick recently sat down with Matt Dzbanek, senior director of capital services at GREA, Global Real Estate Advisors, the national partnership HFO belongs to. Dzbanek places debt and equity coast to coast and has closed loans in nearly all 50 states, which gives him a national view most of us do not get.

Today we are going to talk about a gap. This is not a supply gap, although we will get to that. I mean the gap between what the headlines say about this market and what the closing tables show. Because in Q2, those two things told very different stories, and the closing tables were a lot more revealing.

Today we are looking at Clark County, Washington, and a mismatch that might be the most interesting thing happening in the Portland metro right now.

Good news today for apartment owners who have spent the last two years watching property insurance premiums climb. The market is turning. But before you relax completely, there's a new pressure point moving to umbrella liability coverage that you really need to understand. We will get into both.

Today we are looking at a development model that is getting a lot more attention in Oregon and Washington right now — public-private partnerships. And we are going to get into why they are suddenly interesting to developers who wouldn't have given them much thought three years ago.

Washington saw several significant developments this week. The Ballmer Group announced one of the largest private affordable housing commitments in state history. Puget Sound housing permits fell to their lowest level in a decade while the region experienced job losses. Washington's rent cap law completed its first full year of enforcement. The Spokane Tribe of Indians continued its major expansion into the Puget Sound multifamily market, and state agencies began adapting ahead of HUD's new federal homelessness funding priorities.