Housing Oregon is excited to announce our affiliate organization, the Housing Oregon Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization created to help candidates, policymakers, and voters understand what it takes to make housing more affordable, preserve the homes we already have, and reduce homelessness in communities across Oregon.
Oregon’s housing system is under real strain. Affordable housing providers are facing rising operating costs, preservation risks, insurance pressures, gaps in supportive services, and a shortage of homes affordable to low- and moderate-income Oregonians. At the same time, public investments in affordable housing, homeownership, preservation, homelessness response, and community development are making a real difference.
Housing Oregon Action Fund will be a voice for Oregon’s community development sector to make sure the people closest to this work can have a unified message to educate and convey housing policy solutions to voters and elected officials.
Together as affiliated organizations:
We support pro-housing leaders
We work to build trusted relationships with elected officials, candidates, and public leaders across party lines who understand the importance of community development, affordable housing, and homelessness response.
We educate candidates, policymakers and voters
Affordable housing is complex. We help the public understand housing finance, rental development, preservation, homeownership, shelter operations, resident services, land use, and the real-world conditions facing nonprofit and mission-driven housing providers.
We share the story of community development
We tell the story of what affordable housing investments do for Oregon communities: create stable homes, support seniors and people with disabilities, help families stay rooted, provide pathways out of homelessness, and strengthen local economies.
Oregon needs a strong, practical, pro-community development voice focused on housing finance and production, asset management and preservation, affordable homeownership development and more.
Together, we build thousands of affordable homes a year. We are making an impact. Good work does not speak for itself. It needs a clear public voice, trusted relationships, and the ability to communicate with decision makers and voters.
That is why the Housing Oregon Action Fund exists.
You can join our movement.
To learn more go to – https://housingoregon.org/housing-oregon-action-fund-redirect/