Our Mission – Fostering Dignity Through Housing

Housing Works believes that dignity begins with quality affordable housing.

We foster that dignity by providing award-winning, affordable homes and services that help people build a better future.

Housing Works Internal Equity Commitment

At Housing Works, we are dedicated to fostering a culture of equity that creates an inclusive environment where every team member has equal access to opportunities within the organization.

Housing Works Definition of Equitable Care

A culture of equity is established through an organization wide commitment to addressing historical inequities through policies, open communication, transparency, and consistent staff training.

 

About Housing Works

Housing Works is the local housing authority for Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties.  We provide affordable housing, rental assistance and new beginnings for low-and moderate-income Central Oregonians.

We provide homes for people throughout Central Oregon. We offer quality, well-designed and professionally managed properties serving workforce, seniors, the disabled, veterans and farm workers. Our help with housing includes administering HUD’s Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program in Central Oregon and supporting people who wish to move beyond renting to home ownership.

We also provide programs that bring other essentials—savings accounts, deposit assistance, credit-building loans, and home ownership planning—within reach of anyone motivated to make changes for the better.

Housing Works’ 2022 Annual Report (English)

Informe Anual de Housing Works para 2022 (Español)

Housing Works’ 2019 Annual Report

Housing Works’ 2017 Annual Report

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Housing Works Highlights

  • Assist over 2,000 Central Oregon households annually in finding a place to call home
  • Manage a real estate portfolio valued at over $70 million, with over 900 units of housing at 27 properties in Bend, Redmond, Prineville, Madras, and Sisters
  • Administer over $7 million in Section 8 vouchers, HUD’s rental assistance program for those in need
  • Collaborate with 500 landlords to make market-rate rental units accessible to our clients, providing opportunities to property owners and expanding local affordable housing options
  • Assisted over 150 renters in becoming homeowners since 1996
  • Helped over 230 Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program graduates achieve the FSS program goal of reducing or eliminating the need for public assistance through asset-building, job advancement and homeownership since 1995
  • Graduated over 120 low-income Central Oregonians from the VIDA 3-to-1 matched savings, asset building program since 2006

1977 – Founded as Central Oregon Regional Housing Authority.  Total units of housing owned and managed: 48

1990 – Built Summit Park, Bend, 88 units

1995 – Opened Menta Park for low-income farm-workers, Madras, 20 units

1999 – Opened Emma’s Place for those with mental illness, Bend, 11 units

2001 – Completed Stepping Stones, housing for women recovering from substance abuse or domestic violence, Redmond, 5 units

2002 – Opened Eastlake Village, Bend, 56 units

2003 – Opened Tamarack Village, Sisters, 33 units

2005 – Completed Prairie House, housing for mentally-disabled in Prineville, 8 units

2005 – Completed construction of Horizon House, Bend, 14 units

2005 – Acquired and rehabbed 97 units at Ariel South, Bend, 97 units

2006 – Rebranded organization as Housing Works

2007 – Launched HomeQuest homeownership assistance program

2007 – Launched Jefferson Street Redevelopment to transform blighted neighborhood, Madras

2009 – Completed Putnam Pointe mixed-use development, Bend, 44 units

2009 – Awarded $600,000 through the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) to purchase bank-owned, foreclosed homes throughout Central Oregon for repurchase by up to 16 families or individuals

2010 – Opened Barbara’s Place, the first multi-family building certified to the Earth Advantage Gold Standard in the region, Redmond, 6 units

2011 – Acquired & renovated Centennial Point four-plex for homeless people, through federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds, Bend, 4 units

2011 – Opened Canyon East new apartment complex, Madras, 24 units

2011 – Acquired 19 units at Fairhaven Vista through federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds, Redmond

2012 – Acquired and rehabbed 24 units at Chennia Landing, Madras

2013 – Acquired 40 units at Riverside apartments, Prineville

2014 – Acquired and rehabbed 70 units at Healy Heights, rehabbed 70 units at Ariel Glen, Bend

2015 – Rehabbed 40 units at Aspen Villas and 50 units at Reindeer Meadows, Redmond

2015 – Completed construction of The Parks at Eastlake, Bend, 40 units

2015 – Began the Casa Soñada single-family home development with Heart of Oregon YouthBuild, Madras, 6 single-family homes

2017 – Celebrated 40 years of serving low income families in Central Oregon

2017 – Opened Cook Crossing, 48 senior units over Mosaic Medical’s new Redmond clinic, Redmond

2017 – Opened Moonlight Townhomes, 29 units for workforce/families, Bend

2018 – Opened Daggett Townhomes, 24 units for workforce/families, Bend

2018 – Opened Ochoco School Crossing, 29 units for workforce/families, Prineville

2018 – Completed the 6th and final home of the Casa Soñada single-family home development in Madras

2019 – Opened Ponderosa Heights, 48 units for workforce/families in Sisters and Hawks View Estates, 42 units for workforce/families in La Pine

2020- Completed Rolling Sage, Madras 23 units workforce housing, Canyon Edge, Redmond, 67 units workforce housing, and Liberty Lodge, Redmond 8 units for IDD

2021- Completed Phoenix Crossing, Bend 24 units for IDD and survivors of domestic violence, Legacy Landing, Bend 47 units for seniors

2022- Completed Midtown Place, Redmond 47 units workforce housing, Barnes Butte Vista, Prineville 44 units workforce housing, and preservation of Ariel South, Bend 96 units workforce housing