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Archive Home > 2006 > July > 27 > Home prices deter workers

Home prices deter workers

Report: Area's high-priced housing market discouraging, despite recruitment efforts

By David Fisher / The Bulletin
July 27, 2006

Twenty years ago, you could hardly give away a house in Central Oregon, Crook County Judge Scott Cooper remembers.

Largely because nobody could find a job.

Times have changed.

Employers in Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes counties created more than 10,000 jobs in the years between 2000 and 2004 -....

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