Salem’s housing production strategy aims to make it easier to build homes

The Salem City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a six-year roadmap outlining ways to make housing more affordable and to build more of it.

It’s the city’s first housing production strategy, which outlines 17 approaches the city could take to encourage housing development, preserve existing housing and promote fair and equitable access to housing.

They include expanding city tax cuts for developers, making the permit process simpler and faster, and pursuing more creative ways…