There are plenty of positive elements to a $500 million housing bill promoted by Gov. Tina Kotek, but the legislation will compete with an equally pressing problem that needs to be fixed in Measure 110.

Many may view the state’s housing shortage and the search to revise Measure 110 as separate but equal challenges. As such, conventional wisdom calls for one or the other to be prioritized and fixed.

We believe that would be a mistake. While fixing Measure 110 and injecting money into the state housing crisis are, indeed, separate, both need to be addressed and fixed by lawmakers in Salem during the short legislative session.

The state faces other challenges, no doubt about it, but the housing shortage and finding a way to amend — read fix — Measure 110 are at the top of the priority list.

The housing bill is designed to earmark millions into the construction of middle-income and affordable housing while also providing cash for roads and sewers. The plan, on its face, is a good one and helps meet the governor’s goal of building 36,000 homes a year.

The legislation will also produce tools for eligible cities to enlarge their urban growth boundaries while also creating a housing production and accountability office.

The idea of expanding an individual city’s urban growth boundaries is a huge step in the right direction and while establishing a housing production and accountability office will add to the state’s already ballooning bureaucracy, the overall concept is a good one.

The Legislature created a board — dubbed the Joint Interim Committee on Addiction & Community Safety Response — to tackle Measure 110. That, in and of itself, is a good sign. Measure 110 was widely touted to be a bright path to the future in treating drug addiction in the state, but it has failed.

Millions were and are being poured into elements of the law, but its overall impact has not lived up to expectations.

The way forward, of course, with Measure 110 is to make minor drug possession a crime again. The law eliminates that specific proposal to a large extent and it hasn’t worked. Polls show Oregonians want the law to be upgraded and lawmakers need to do so as soon as possible.

The housing proposal is as needed as revisions to Measure 110. Legislators need to make both issues a priority this session.