The Affordable Housing Development program provides a single subrecipient in each impacted county an expanded menu of eligible activities allowing each county to design and administer a program based on the needs, resources, and capacity of the county to create new affordable housing for rental or homeownership through acquisition, demolition, rehabilitation, new construction including site-built or pre-fabricated units and the option to allow for accessory dwelling units, homebuyer subsidy and infrastructure projects necessary for affordable housing development.
- (1) Funding is available through direct county allocations to a local government, public housing authority or other qualified public or private nonprofit organization.
- (2) Projects may be developed by the subrecipient or by other developer partners funded directly or identified competitively and contracted with by the subrecipient.
- (3) All projects funded through the Affordable Housing Development program should result in housing that is affordable, energy efficient and more resilient in the face of future disaster.
(4) Geographic Eligibility: FEMA IA-declared counties for DR-4562:
- (a) HUD-identified MID counties: Clackamas, Douglas, Jackson, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, and Marion
- (b) Grantee-identified MID counties: Klamath
- (5) Administration: The funds will be administered by subrecipients.
- (6) Updated program information can be found at the OHCS ReOregon website.
Statutory/Other Authority
ORS 456.555
Statutes/Other Implemented
ORS 458.315 - 458.317
History
OHCS 25-2025, adopt filed 05/23/2025, effective 05/23/2025