Title 36A, Housing; Lottery and Games; Environment

For the purposes of ORS 456.550 and 458.210 to 458.240, a community development corporation is: (1) An organization that: (a) Is established under the provisions of ORS chapter 65; (b) Has qualified for tax exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; (c) H…

The Housing and Community Services Department may establish a program to build local capacity to address any or a combination of the following: (1) Housing needs of people, with low or moderate incomes, for homeownership and affordable rental housing; (2) The problem of abandoned…

In carrying out the provisions of ORS 458.215, the Housing and Community Services Department shall provide any or a combination of the following: (1) Initial planning grants to qualified nonprofit community-based organizations, including but not limited to housing authorities and…

(1) In carrying out the provisions of ORS 456.550 and 458.210 to 458.240, the Housing and Community Services Department shall give preference to a community development corporation described in ORS 458.210 (2) or that: (a) Has a defined geographic service area outside an entitlem…

The Housing and Community Services Department shall adopt rules to carry out the provisions of ORS 456.550 and 458.210 to 458.240, including rules to define “persons of low and moderate income.” [1989 c.1030 §6]

Nothing in ORS 456.550 and 458.210 to 458.240 shall limit the authority or powers of community development corporations authorized pursuant to ORS 708A.150. [1989 c.1030 §9; 1997 c.631 §475] HOUSING REVITALIZATION PROGRAM

The Legislative Assembly finds that: (1) A critical shortage exists of suitable, affordable housing for households with an income below the median income. This shortage is particularly acute with respect to rental housing. (2) During the past half decade, the supply of rental hou…

(1) The Housing and Community Services Department shall adopt rules to develop and administer a housing revitalization program for low and moderate income housing. (2) Applicants for revitalization program funds shall be: (a) A unit of local government; (b) A housing authority; (…

(1) The Housing and Community Services Department shall award loans to be used for the predevelopment costs of developing new housing. (2) Eligible predevelopment costs that may be funded by loans under this section include: (a) Professional services, including architectural, eng…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Disaster” means a declared disaster or emergency, as defined in ORS 401.685, that resulted in the loss or damage of residential units. (b) “Residential units” includes recreational vehicles, manufactured dwellings, prefabricated structures, small…

(1) The Disaster Housing Recovery Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Disaster Housing Recovery Fund shall be credited to the fund. (2) The fund consists of moneys appropriated, allocated, deposited or tra…

(1) As used in this section, “specified agency” means the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, the Housing and Community Services Department or the Department of Human Services. (2) If a specified agency causes temporary housing to be provided to displaced individuals in re…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Average income” means an income that complies with income restrictions determined at the advice and consent of the Oregon Housing Stability Council, but not to exceed the greater of 100 percent of the statewide or local area median income adjuste…

(1) As used in ORS 458.356 to 458.362: (a) “Manufactured dwelling” means: (A) A manufactured dwelling, as defined in ORS 446.003; or (B) A prefabricated structure, as defined in ORS 455.010, that is relocatable, more than eight and one-half feet wide and designed for use as a sin…

(1) The Housing and Community Services Department shall establish a program to provide grants to persons for safely decommissioning and disposing of a manufactured dwelling. (2) The department may award grants under the program only to a person that is: (a)(A) An individual who o…

(1) The Director of the Housing and Community Services Department shall appoint an advisory committee on manufactured housing. The director has the discretion to determine the membership of the committee and the terms of committee members, but shall consider for membership repres…

(1) The Manufactured Home Preservation Fund is established within the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Manufactured Home Preservation Fund shall be credited to the fund. (2) Moneys in the Manufactured Home Preservation Fund consi…

(1) The Housing and Community Services Department shall provide funds to assist very low income elderly persons to defray the cost of rental housing through programs administered by the department including, but not limited to, the Emergency Housing Account created in ORS 458.620…

(1) The Housing and Community Services Department shall implement a long-term rental assistance program that is available to individuals who are younger than 25 years of age and who are, or have recently been: (a) Homeless; (b) In a substitute care program, as defined in ORS 326.…

(1) There is established the Long-Term Rent Assistance Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund. (2) The Long-Term Rent Assistance Fund shall consist of moneys credited to the fund from moneys appropriated or transferred to the fund by the Legislative Assembly or receive…

The Housing and Community Services Department shall make available on the department’s website: (1) A list of dates and counties in which there exists an extreme heat event for a forecast zone in this state as defined in ORS 90.355. Dates published on the website must remain on t…

In distributing rental assistance to residential tenants funded by federal, state or local moneys, a public body, as defined in ORS 174.109, and any designee or grantee of a public body shall: (1) Promptly provide a dated application receipt to each tenant who applies for assista…

The Legislative Assembly finds that: (1) Safe, affordable and readily available housing options for low-income individuals and families do not match the increasing need for such housing in this state. (2) Much state-owned property is unused and could be made available to increase…

The purposes of ORS 458.405 to 458.460 are to provide low-income housing options including but not limited to: (1) Transitional and emergency housing for low-income individuals and families as long as this type of housing is accompanied by adequate supporting social services; and…

In carrying out ORS 458.405 to 458.460, the state shall act by and through its duly constituted board, commission or agency. The board, commission or agency may provide rules necessary to carry out ORS 458.405 to 458.460. [1989 c.440 §3; 1995 c.79 §270; 2023 c.193 §28]

Whenever the state or any state agency possesses or controls real property that might be used to further the public use of providing housing options for low-income individuals and families that is unused for any other public purpose and in which no long-term policy exists to use …

Real property needed for a public use other than low-income housing shall not be sold, exchanged, leased or conveyed under the authority of ORS 458.405 to 458.460. [1989 c.440 §5]

(1) The authority to lease property granted by ORS 458.420 includes authority to lease property not owned or controlled by the state at the time of entering the lease. Such lease shall be conditioned upon the subsequent acquisition of the interest covered by the lease. (2) Any le…

Every lease entered into pursuant to ORS 458.405 to 458.460 shall be authorized by order of the state agency executing the lease and shall provide such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the government body executing the lease. [1989 c.440 §7]

The state is hereby granted express power to relinquish the title to any of its property not needed for another public purpose to the United States Government or any other governmental body, political subdivision, housing authority or nonprofit organization involved with providin…

Before the transfer of any state-owned real property under the provisions of ORS 458.405 to 458.460 to a housing authority or a nonprofit organization involved with providing low-income housing to individuals and families in this state, the state or its agency, board or commissio…

In the event that more than one housing authority or appropriate nonprofit organization is interested in a building available for transfer under ORS 458.405 to 458.460, the state or its agency shall conduct a bidding process that takes into account: (1) The entity most capable of…

As used in ORS 197A.447 and 458.461 to 458.478: (1) “Affordable housing” means dwellings or dwelling units offered for purchase or rent, with or without government assistance, to individuals who are members of low or moderate income households at a sales price or rent that is aff…

(1)(a) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall identify lands owned by the state within urban growth boundaries and designate the lands as home start lands if, in the department’s discretion, the lands have not been used or committed for any permanent state purpose…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may designate real property as home start lands if the department finds that the property complies with the requirements under subsection (2) of this section and that the local government and property owners have identified a p…

The designation of real property as home start lands is terminated for real property if a development application for the property has not been approved by the local government under ORS 197A.447 within three years following the property’s designation as home start lands and: (1)…

(1)(a) The state, through the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, may sell, transfer, or lease for an initial period not to exceed 99 years all real property designated as home start lands under ORS 458.462 to housing developers for the purpose of facilitating the devel…

(1) For real property sold, transferred or leased under ORS 458.467, the housing developer shall: (a) Work to diligently prepare affordable housing by taking necessary steps and engaging contractors to: (A) Partition, subdivide or replat the lands for the development of housing u…

(1) The proceeds, less costs, of real property sold by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services under ORS 458.467 shall be credited to and deposited in the Home Start Lands Fund established under ORS 458.478. (2) The revenue from the rental or lease of home start lands ma…

(1) As used in this section, “primary residence” means housing occupied as an individual’s principal dwelling for a cumulative total of at least nine months of the calendar year and that the individual intends to maintain as the individual’s principal dwelling. (2) When a propert…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall collaborate with the Department of State Lands on the implementation of ORS 197A.447 and 458.461 to 458.478. (2) Upon request by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, the Housing Accountability and Production …

(1) The Home Start Lands Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Home Start Lands Fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Oregon Department of Administrative…

As used in ORS 458.480 to 458.490: (1) “Affordable housing” means residential housing that may be purchased or rented, with or without government assistance, by persons who meet the applicable income limits of local, state or federally funded programs or developments. (2) “Area m…

(1) The Housing and Community Services Department shall, after consultation with the Oregon Housing Stability Council, develop and implement the Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program for the purpose of expanding the state’s supply of affordable housing for low income ho…

(1) The Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned on moneys in the Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Fund shall be credited to the fund. (2) The fund consis…

(1) The community action agency network, established initially under the federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, is the delivery system for federal antipoverty programs in Oregon, including: (a) The Community Services Block Grant; (b) Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program; …

(1) There is established an Energy Crisis Trust Fund, separate and distinct from the General Fund, in the State Treasury. As permitted by federal court decisions, federal statutory requirements and administrative decisions, funds from the Petroleum Violation Escrow Fund made avai…

The Oregon Housing Stability Council, in conjunction with the Community Action Partnership of Oregon, shall advise and assist the Housing and Community Services Department with rules, policies and programs regarding low income home energy assistance provided for under ORS 458.510…

The Oregon Housing Stability Council shall be responsible for receiving the recommendations of any state body relating to the issue of homelessness, and for forwarding the recommendations and proposals to state agencies or other public or private organizations for action that the…

(1) As used in this section, “homelessness” means the lack of a decent, safe, stable and permanent place to live that is fit for human habitation. (2) The Legislative Assembly finds and declares that: (a) Homelessness is a detriment to individuals, families and communities. The e…