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What is Senate Bill 51?
Passed by the Oregon Legislature in 2025, Senate Bill 51 provides $3.3 million to strengthen property and asset management capacity at Oregon’s affordable housing properties. Oregon Housing and Community Services is contracting with HDC to deploy these crucial property stabilization dollars.
Strengthening property management. Some of the funds will be granted to nonprofit corporations, federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon, local governments, and housing authorities for the purpose of “improving occupancy rates, expediting move-ins, preventing evictions, reducing residential turnover and enhancing the well-being of residents in affordable housing projects.”
Providing asset management training. Another portion of the funds will be used to provide asset management training to nonprofit corporations, federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon, local governments, and housing authorities that own affordable housing.
Read Traci Manning’s September 8 blog post to learn more about what the funds are for and what we know, today, about the deployment path ahead.
Asset management grant opportunities will be offered soon. We want your input!
We are designing a grant program to fund asset management training and technical assistance. (A separate grant program will be designed to fund property management assistance, as described above.) The grant funds may be used to access services from any qualified provider, including HDC.
What types of training and technical assistance does your organization need? What types of training formats and grant requirements work best for you? What is your capacity to participate?
We want to hear from you, if you work for an organization that operates affordable housing in Oregon. You can share your input in two ways:
Take the survey. Go to https://forms.office.com/r/3w0Z1PYHCh to take our multiple-choice survey. Estimated completion time: 10 minutes.
Come to an engagement session on Zoom. Register today to share your perspective and hear from your colleagues.
Topic 1: Training Needs
Monday, Nov. 10, 1:00 p.m. Registration link
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 10:30 a.m. Registration link
Topic 2: Grants
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 10:30 a.m. Registration link
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 3:00 p.m. Registration link
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