Asset Management

Tools, training, and strategic guidance to keep your housing properties healthy and strong.

Affordable housing properties are essential community resources. HDC’s asset management team serves as a partner, mentor, and advisor to owners and funders of affordable housing. We are passionate about empowering organizations to protect and sustain their housing properties over decades of operation.

Our clients say that working with HDC gives them knowledge, skills, and tools to oversee their housing portfolios with confidence. They spend less time worrying and reacting, more time engaging in proactive, constructive asset management. Large and small organizations use HDC’s capacity and expertise to free up their staff and address tough challenges—resulting in better portfolio performance and less staff burnout.

Do you oversee the housing assets of a nonprofit organization or housing authority?

We offer customized support, from answering simple technical questions to supporting team collaboration. Our team brings experience working directly for nonprofit owners, and we facilitate Oregon’s largest peer-learning network for affordable housing asset managers.

We can help you…

→ Assess a problem property and devise a plan to improve its performance.

→ Set up property oversight systems that get used and craft effective portfolio reports for all levels of the organization.

→ Mentor and train new asset management staff.

→ Train your board of directors on the risks and rewards of housing ownership.

→ Create a portfolio preservation plan, including prioritizing capital needs and determining an investor exit/refinance strategy.

→ Advise leaders on effective oversight of asset management.

Want some free help? Join the HDC-facilitated Property and Asset Management Working Group (PAMWG) to learn and network with affordable housing asset managers in Oregon. Visit our Resources for Housing Professionals page to view recorded presentations on a variety of topics.

Do you work for an agency that funds affordable housing?

We bring an understanding of owner concerns and challenges and an equity lens to our work with public agencies and private and philanthropic funders. Our past and present clients include Oregon Housing and Community Services, Washington State Housing Finance Commission, the Portland Housing Bureau, and Meyer Memorial Trust.

We can help you…

→ Gather and analyze portfolio financial data.

→ Formulate policy recommendations.

→ Provide technical assistance and training to nonprofit owners.

Contact our Staff

Kimberly Taylor
Director of Asset Management
503-335-3668 ext.103 

Liz Winchester
Senior Asset Management Project Manager
503-335-3668 ext.107

Natalie Thornton
Senior Asset Management Project Manager
503-335-3668 ext.116