Gresham, OR housing supply, ownership, and rent

The local figures answer the first question: Gresham, OR's current ACS housing baseline includes 44,005 total housing units, 41,801 occupied units, and 2,204 vacant units. For the decision at hand, those counts may help a borrower establish the scale of the measured housing base before comparing tenure, rent, current listings, property condition, and financing. The figures describe stock across the survey period; they do not say that 2,204 homes were listed for sale or available to rent at one moment. In practical terms, reading 44,005 total units with 41,801 occupied and 2,204 vacant units keeps the release internally grounded while leaving live availability to current listing and property evidence.

A grounded Gresham, OR comparison starts with current listings and lease offers, then uses the ACS evidence to check whether the sample is being interpreted in the context of 44,005 total units, a vacancy share of 5.0%, and an owner share of 55.8%. For renting, replace the $1,586 median with the actual lease, utilities, deposits, and expected changes. For the ownership budget, keep the 55.8% share as market context while adding the selected property's price, taxes, insurance, maintenance, association obligations, loan disclosures, and cash-to-close. The resulting worksheet will not turn 44.2% or 55.8% into a recommendation, but it will keep the two paths comparable and make the remaining assumptions visible before a decision.