And the awards go to...our amazing project teams.

 
 

Pictured above are our friends at Salem Housing Authority accepting the Novogradac award for the Historic Rehabilitation Residential Development That Best Exemplifies Major Community Impact in Kansas City earlier this fall.

The team responsible for the award-winning project, Yaquina Hall, achieved multiple notable feats—transforming an 80-year-old nurse's dormitory into permanent supportive housing for people exiting homelessness, while painstakingly maintaining the historic character of the original structure and directing a large portion of construction jobs to minority-owned firms (an outcome that earned a Daily Journal of Commerce Building Diversity award).

HDC project managers Debbie Page, France Fitzpatrick, and Philip Dochow supported Salem Housing Authority through every phase of the effort, including the technically challenging construction period that occurred at the height of the Covid pandemic.

Yaquina Hall wasn’t the only HDC-assisted project that garnered local and regional recognition for excellence in 2024. Here are some other standouts:

  • Cascadia Health’s Centennial Place provides 71 affordable homes for families at risk of homelessness and people experiencing serious mental illness in East Portland. The Centennial Place development team received the Earth Advantage Catalyst for Change award and the Daily Journal of Commerce Project of the Year award. HDC project managers Debbie Page, Lara Spangler, Anita Punja, and Aminata Diagne all contributed to the development effort.

  • Also receiving DJC Top Projects awards were Farmworker Housing Development Corp.’s Colonia Paz II, which drew on the finance-management skills of HDC’s Gigi Szabo; and Catholic Charities’ Good Shepherd Village, project-managed by HDC’s Shauna Childress and Lara Spangler with support from Aminata Diagne.

  • Sabin CDC’s Harvey Rice Heritage—more credit to Anita, Lara, and Aminata—addressed gentrification in NE Portland by providing affordable housing while honoring the rich history of Portland’s Black community. The project was a double award winner, earning the Earth Advantage award for Community Engaged Design and Housing Oregon’s Golden Hammer award.

These award-winning developments show the breadth of impact that mission-driven housing providers deliver in communities across Oregon. We congratulate all the project team members—owners, architects, general contractors, local jurisdictions, funders, and HDC’s own fantastic project managers—for their commitment to excellence in the service of housing abundance.

(The list above is not comprehensive, and we’ll update it if we learn more.)

 
 
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