Tina Kotek
Governor of Oregon · Democrat · Represents all of Oregon
Photograph by Tony Miller, public domain (Flickr Public Domain Mark), via Wikimedia Commons.
Record at a glance
Counts are the promise cards on this page. The housing number card is separate: it compares a goal with a count and does not get a Kept or Broken label. Vague lines stay Not yet rated.
Housing builds are running at about half the goal
Number card14,839 homes permitted in 2025. The goal was 29,522 a year.
The goal is the state's annual housing production target under the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis — the needs-based target that replaced Gov. Kotek's original goal of 36,000 homes a year, set in 2023. Oregon permitted about half of it. One precision note: a permit is not a finished home — it is a home authorized to be built.
Housing
Expand affordable housing options
In ProgressThe promise, in their own wordsExpand housing options for renters and first-time buyers, cut red tape to expedite new construction, and increase development of starter homes and down payment assistance programs.
What has happened so far
The plan is published and she was re-elected on it. The new term and the 2027 legislative session are where bills, budget lines, and permit numbers will prove or sink it.
Promise published in reelection plan
Re-elected (called by major outlets)
New term + session opens
Bills, budget, permit numbers
Childcare + Education
Make childcare and preschool more accessible statewide
Not yet ratedThe promise, in their own wordsExpand access to infant and toddler childcare while creating a pathway to universal preschool statewide, building on recommendations from early learning experts convened by Governor Kotek.
Why no rating yet
That sentence is the childcare line in her published reelection plan. The plan page does not name a bill, a dollar amount, or a deadline, so it is not graded. A longer written statement was reported by the Statesman Journal on Oct 24, 2026; that article is paywalled, so it is a secondary link and is not the wording used here.
Plan published
Re-elected (called)
A bill, a budget line, or a deadline
Economy
Create a Department of Commerce
In ProgressThe promise, in their own wordsEstablish a new Department of Commerce to enhance Oregon's competitiveness, coordination, and private-sector partnerships to expand economic growth in every region of the state.
What has happened so far
The readable source is the reelection plan, which says she would establish a Department of Commerce. That page does not name a bill number. No free source checked for this card shows a bill filed yet, so the card stays In Progress on the published plan rather than Kept or Broken.
Promise published in reelection plan
Re-elected (called)
A bill with this name, then a vote
Health
Increase access to mental health and addiction care
Not yet ratedThe promise, in their own wordsContinue to strengthen access to mental health and addiction care.
Why no rating yet
The plan line has no target number, program, or date. A Nov 2, 2026 Statesman Journal story also carried a written statement on this subject; that story is paywalled, so this card is graded from the plan. Vague pledges stay Not yet rated.
Pledge published in reelection plan
A specific, checkable version of this pledge
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A fair window passed — a full session or a Congress year — with no meaningful action.
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Too vague to test, or no source yet. We would rather say that than guess.
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