Supporting organizations, strengthening communities

We help mission-driven property developers create and preserve housing and community facilities that thrive and endure

  • Madrona

    Permanent homes for working people

    Madrona Studios houses a substance treatment facility and 176 apartments for low-income residents, including 80 individuals coming out of homelessness.
  • Rockwood

    Support for families

    The Rockwood Building combines affordable housing with essential services for low-income residents in East Multnomah County.
  • Watershed

    Safe housing for seniors

    The Watershed at Hillsdale gives new life to an abandoned brownfield in a Southwest Portland neighborhood’s burgeoning town center.

Oregon experienced a 29% increase in homelessness between January 2009 and August 2011.

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Prepare your organization for asset management success - Join AMPP round three!
Thursday, April 05, 2012

Be a part of HDC’s Asset Management & Portfolio Preservation (AMPP) Curriculum Class of 2014! Housing Development Center is accepting applications for its third round of AMPP, scheduled to begin October, 2012.

HDC’s AMPP Curriculum helps organizations build their asset management capacity - by establishing systems to analyze the physical and operational needs of portfolios and developing preservation plans for long-term viability. For complete details about the AMPP Curriculum, click here.

AMPP’s goal is to ensure that investments made in affordable housing over the last 20 years continue to be successful by providing non-profit owners and housing authorities the tools they need.

Most applicants apply for funding to participate in AMPP as part of OHCS’ GHAP Capacity Building Grant and that funding cycle is soon approaching. OHCS plans to post the GHAP Application sometime in April.

To find out about participating in HDC’s Asset Management & Portfolio Preservation Curriculum and for assistance with submitting a GHAP application, contact Kimberly Taylor at 503-335-3668 or kimberly@housingdevelopmentcenter.org.

Graduates of HDC's AMPP I class celebrate their accomplishments
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

On March 14th Housing Development Center graduated its first AMPP class! Six organizations completed HDC’s 18-month Asset Management & Portfolio Preservation curriculum.

Participants, staff, board members and funders gathered to celebrate the occasion. Each organization shared the impact AMPP has had on them and reported on specific outcomes from the program. The results are astonishing. Jim Moorefield, Executive Director for Willamette Neighborhood Housing Services, reported that participating in HDC’s AMPP program has been the single biggest capacity-building effort of the organization during his 14 year tenure. Check out some of the performance outcomes for the Class of 2012!

Congratulations to -

Cascadia Behavioral Health

Catholic Charities

Columbia Cascade Housing Corporation

Farmworker Housing Development Corporation

Housing Authority of Yamhill County

Willamette Neighborhood Housing Services

Check out participant presentations to see how AMPP impacted these organizations: AMPP I Participant Impact Presentations.

HDC client Human Solutions receives Audrey Nelson Community Development Achievement Award for the Rockwood Building
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

HDC congratulates Human Solutions for this prestigious honor!

Bestowed by the National Community Development Association in Washington, D.C. , the Audrey Nelson Community Development Achievement Award recognizes projects that make “exemplary use of Community Development Block Grant funds which address the needs of families, homes and neighborhoods.”

HDC provided financial structuring and construction management services for the Rockwood Building, which provides critically needed housing and social services to residents of one of Multnomah County’s poorest neighborhoods. This $16.9 million transit-oriented project, one of the first to break ground in the new Rockwood Urban Renewal Area, was completed last October. View more details here.

 “This project stood out for its very innovative use of funding and mix of key services in one place,” said NCDA Assistant Director Vicki Watson, quoted in a January 25 Oregonian article. “That’s something you don’t see every day, and we consider it a model other communities can learn from.” Read the full Oregonian article here.

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