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. (1) Funding is available through direct county allocations to a local government, public housing authority or other qualified public or private nonprofit organization.
2. (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. (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. (4) Geographic Eligibility: FEMA IA-declared counties for DR-4562:

   1. (a) HUD-identified MID counties: Clackamas, Douglas, Jackson, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, and Marion
   2. (b) Grantee-identified MID counties: Klamath
5. (5) Administration: The funds will be administered by subrecipients.
6. (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