Housing providers shine a light on systems barriers as a new capacity-building effort digs in.

 
 

HDC is excited to be partnering with cohort members Hacienda CDC, NAYA Family Center, Farmworker Housing Development Corporation, and Bienestar and convening funders Meyer Memorial Trust and Oregon Housing & Community Services (OHCS) to implement the Housing Equity Capacity Building Strategy (HECBS).

HECBS is a capacity-building program that is supporting rural and culturally specific affordable housing owners to…

  • Build capacity to support the longevity of their existing properties;

  • Develop and refine plans for organizational growth;

  • Identify systems barriers to growth and explore how to work through them.

HDC’s role as an HECBS partner is to lead organizational and housing-portfolio-assessment work and to provide technical assistance and training to support the goals of all four teams.

Our HECBS team, Kimberly Taylor and Liz Winchester, are thrilled to be working with this amazing group of affordable housing professionals, as we dig into organizational assessment work and begin to zero in on primary themes emerging from generative large-group discussion sessions.

We look forward to continuing this work, and reporting back on outcomes, in 2024. Meantime, we are pleased to share photos from HECBS’s second large-group session, in October. (Click on a photo to advance the carousel.) Thanks to Hacienda CDC for hosting and to Erica Mitchell for capturing these images!

 
 
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