New apartment complex comes to downtown Roseburg

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As the population rises in roseburg, city officials continue to question how to meet the growing housing needs in the area.

Kezi 9 news reporter evita garza shows us how one property developer is hard at work at a solution.

00:00 take lower with a population of about 23 thousand people& the city of roseburg is expected to grow by 55 hundred in the next 20 years?according to a recent housing analysis done by the city.

But the question is& where will everyone live?

00:15 magnus johanneson, property developer:?we need housing that people can afford.

There no doubt about that?

That exactly what property developer magnus johanneson is trying to accomplish.

He is transforming an abandoned building on s-e jackson street into a 34 unit studio apartment complex& for onl* 400 hundred a month.?a lot of developers get so hung up on the money part and the cash flow part.

So i think a little bit different maybe?

Communications specialist eric johnson says they need to build 26 thousand new units in the next 20 years... to house the growing population.

That about 130 units a year.

But with the help of developers like johnanneson& johnson says they expect 300 new units by next year.

00:58 eric johnson, communications specialist, city of roseburg:?that's one of the goals of city council.

We're very aware folks need to find a place to stay."

1:05 evita:?johanneson says this project will finish up in the next 6 months.

But, he not stopping here.

He says he has plans to build more apartments complexes that will be big enough to house more families??il have 2 bedroom apartments, 1 bedroom apartments, and the studios?

Johanneson says the project is half way done& and he plans to move in people as early as december.

In roseburg, evita