Resources
Upcoming Events
Core action team meets twice a month
Next event: Regional Workforce Housing Update Webinar (see below)
Registration link: https://eou.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApc-ugrzgjH90TvKQyrI8ItBkB6cD2Mhu-
On June 8th from 9 am – noon PDT, interested community members and partners involved in addressing the workforce housing shortage in Northeast Oregon will gather virtually to:
Learn about State-level housing development updates and opportunities,
Discuss the current and future role of the Workforce Housing Regional Planning Team,
Learn about activities that have happened over the past eight months in Baker, Union, Wallowa and Morrow Counties,
Discuss regional-/county-level next steps in topical and regional small breakout groups.
Housing Development Speakers include: Clayton Crowhurst, NW Housing Alternatives; Drew Davis, USDA Rural Development Single Family Housing Program Director; Caryn Appler, Energy Trust of Oregon; Robin Swales, CAPECO Housing Manager; and Patrick Wingard, Department of Land Conservation & Development.
For more information, contact Chantal Ivenso, chantalivenso@neoedd.org, 541-426-3598 x4.
Past Events
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Northeast Oregon
Workforce Housing
Models & Solutions Webinar
Held on September 28, 2021
Five panelists share solutions to workforce housing shortages in rural communities. (select a panelist below to view their presentation slide deck)
Curt Berger - Columbia Basin Student Homes
Gust Tsiatsos - GCT Land Management
Katie Ullrich - Proud Ground
Nick Green - City of John Day
Jason Dietz - Summit County Colorado Planning
Question and Answers Follow-up
Collaborative INfo
NEO Workforce Housing Action Team One-Pager
Read this one-pager to get an overview of what each team is doing. Share with organizations and other members of your community.
miscellaneous
This program provides real-world application, exposure, and opportunity to the student population in the Columbia Basin region. They produce one custom, modern, energy efficient student built home during the school year in a two block class time frame.
Community Land Trusts are used across the country in both rural and urban settings to create and preserve affordable housing in perpetuity. Proud Ground has provided permanently affordable homeownership opportunities using the CLT model for 20+ years and currently stewards close to 400 homes in our five county service area.
A community organization that provides homeownership opportunities to residents in SE Washington and NE Oregon whose needs are not met by the traditional housing market.
Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority
Strengthening Community Through Workforce Housing. The goal of APCHA is to provide affordable housing opportunities through rental and sale to persons who are or have been actively employed or self-employed within Aspen and Pitkin County, and that provide or have provided goods and services to individuals, businesses or institutional operations, within Aspen and Pitkin County (prior to retirement and/or any disability), and other qualified persons as defined in these Regulations, and as they are amended from time to time.
Headwaters Economics Housing Costs Analysis
Forty-five percent of Americans (144 million people) are living in places where housing price increases during the pandemic are unprecedented. This analysis shows that communities across the country, in every state, are grappling with housing prices increasing at a rate that has not been seen before, even during the housing bubble that led to the Great Recession.