Celebrating a Year of Grand Openings!
Clockwise from upper right: Centennial Place, Colonia Paz II, Yaquina Hall, Douglas Fir Apartments.
HDC and our partners worked together to plan and manage more than 20 affordable housing and facilities development projects in communities across Oregon and southwest Washington in 2023—and 10 of these projects completed construction over the past 12 months. Together, these new and renovated housing communities are providing nearly 700 affordable homes to families and individuals in Oregon. Follow the links to learn more about each project’s story.
At Centennial Place, a U-shaped building wraps around a private courtyard with a play area for children. Photo by Josh Partee.
Winter
Centennial Place. In East Portland’s Centennial neighborhood, Cascadia Health’s newest housing community provides 71 deeply affordable homes to two resident populations who struggle with housing instability: very low-income families and people with serious mental illness.
Spring
Harvey Rice Heritage. Sabin CDC redeveloped two sites to create 41 affordable homes and combat gentrification in Northeast Portland’s Sabin and Cully neighborhoods. Named after iconic Black Portland artists Isaka Shamsud-Din and Charlotte Lewis, the properties include public gathering space and an art gallery.
Colonia Paz II has plenty of amenities for families with children.
Douglas Fir Apartments. At 15 units, New Narrative’s small-scaled housing community is a great option for mental healthcare clients who do better in lower-density living environments. The studio and one-bedroom apartments are located near a New Narrative clinic and other services in East Portland.
Yaquina Hall and the Southfair Apartments. Yaquina Hall was a historic building pegged for redevelopment. The Southfair Apartments was an aging housing community in need of thorough renovation. Salem Housing Authority created a single development project to achieve ambitious goals for both.
Colonia Amistad and Colonia Paz II. HDC’s decades-long relationship with Farmworker Housing Development Corporation continued. In Independence and Lebanon, Colonia Amistad residents returned to 38 refreshed apartment units, and the first occupants of 116-unit Colonia Paz II moved into their new homes.
A rendering of Nueva Esperanza shows the development’s central paseo as it will look when landscaping has filled in.
Fall
Good Shepherd Village. The first regulated affordable housing in Happy Valley, Catholic Charities of Oregon’s 143-unit development combines family-sized apartments with permanent supportive housing for people who have experienced or are at risk of homelessness.
Golden Eagle II. This Tillamook apartment complex was at risk of conversion to market-rate housing in 2016. But a years-long preservation effort turned the tide, and Northwest Coastal Housing finished reopening all 34 renovated homes to residents this year.
Nueva Esperanza. This new 13-building complex is providing 150 homes and community amenities to Hillsboro residents, including the farmworker and immigrant families who are the focus of Bienestar’s services. Nueva Esperanza is Bienestar’s largest housing development project to date and HDC’s first joint venture.
Dates indicate when projects completed construction. The last development on this list, Nueva Esperanza, will hold its grand opening event early in 2024.