Down by the River, Part 4: What’s still to come in the Riverfront District?

This story is part of KLCC's "Down by the River" series. To read the entire series, click here .

As he walked along a Riverfront District path, Eugene’s walking historian Randy Gudeika gestured toward a pair of new apartment buildings and recounted a 2006 article in the Eugene Weekly.

“City Councilor Betty Taylor, she was 80 when she said this, ‘When people talk about going back to the river, it should be for everybody to see, not for just people that have the money,’” Gudeika said. “These aren't exactly affordable housing units.”

Eugene’s median individual income is $40,668 a year, according to U.S. Census data . The Census uses the term rent-burdened to describe a person or household that spends more than 30% of their income on housing.

For a median earner in Eugene, th