Links and Resources

Bylaws

• Cascade NAHRO Bylaws - 2003

  Regional
  

• AOHA
  Association of Oregon Housing Authorities
• AWHA
  Association of Washington Housing Authorities
• Community Development Law Center
  Provides legal services to non-profit organizations in Oregon.
• HARRP
  Housing Authorities Risk Retention Pool
  includes best practices, publications and resources
• Oregon Law Help
  Free Legal Information for Low-Income Oregonians
• PNRC
  Pacific Nortwest Regional Nahro
• Cascade Link
  Interjurisdictional information providing online access to citizens living in the Portland, OR/ Vancouver, WA metropolitan-region.
• Housing Connections
  a web-based community service that is intended to better connect providers of housing and housing services to renters who are looking for these types of housing opportunities.

  Financial
  

• Fannie Mae
  Financial Products and services for affordable home ownership.
• Freddie Mac
  Chartered by Congress in 1970 to create a continous flow of funds to mortgage lenders in support of homeownership and rental hosing.
• National Equity Fund
  NEF is the premier nonprofit syndicator of tax-credit financed housing.
• Housing and Community Services
  State of Oregon's housing finance agency.

  Government and National
  

• National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
  
  • Calendar
  • Legislative Issues
  • Journal of Housing and Community Development
  • Government Links
  • National Organizations
• National Low Income Housing Coalition
  The primary policy objective of NLIHC is passage of legislation that provides major new funding for the production of rental housing for extremely low income people.
• Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse
  A new forum from HUD for sharing ideas and solutions for overcoming state and local regulatory barriers to affordable housing.
• Regulations.gov
  Allows users to enter comments on proposed rules, find proposed/interim rules by agency, and comment. You do a search for HUD to find current info on rules, etc. on which you might want to comment.
• HUD
  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Devlopment
• HUD Community Connections
  Clearinghouse providing program regulations; descriptions of model programs; case studies of affordable housing initiatives;etc