Portland Housing Center
Your partner in home ownership
Everyone deserves access to homeownership. Portland Housing Center makes it possible through quality education, counseling, and financial services.
Portland Housing Center
At the Portland Housing Center, we believe everyone deserves access to homeownership.
We make it possible through quality home buyer education, one-on-one guidance, financial services, and a variety of other resources to make homeownership a reality for Portland-area residents.
We’ve helped more than 7,000 families become successful, financially secure homeowners. We prepare you for the challenges, and guide you throughout the home-buying process. We offer mortgages with fixed interest rates, low down payments, and assistance with down payment and closing costs.
What We Do
Everyone deserves access to homeownership. Portland Housing Center makes it possible through quality education, counseling, and financial services.
Portland Housing Center is your trusted resource no matter where you are at in the homebuying process. When you register we’ll help you determine what services you need to become a successful homebuyer and connect you with one on one counseling, financial management and homebuyer classes, and financial products that can help you become successful. We make it easy by recommending your first step and giving you access to schedule your first service online immediately after you register.
We also offer first mortgages with low down payments, down payment and closing cost assistance, and access to savings matching programs.
Portland Housing Center also provides a variety of in-house services and resources, and helps our customers assemble a team of seasoned, engaged professional partners, including home inspectors and Realtors™.
Our History
Portland Housing Center is a nonprofit organization founded in 1991 with support from the City of Portland, some local banks, and concerned citizens.
We were founded to ensure all Portland residents had equal access to information and resources to achieve homeownership. We specialize in providing each of our home buyers with education, counseling, financial resources, and other home-buying support.
Donors
Corporate
- Albina Bank
- Bank of America
- HomeStreet Bank
- Fidelity National Bank
- J.P. Morgan Chase Bank
- OnPoint Credit Union
- PMAR/Home Foundation
- Summit Mortgage
- Umpqua Bank
- US Bank
- Wells Fargo NA
Foundations
- Meyer Memorial Trust
Government
- City of Portland
- HomeFree USA (HUD Counseling)
- NeighborWorks America
- Portland Housing Bureau
- Oregon Housing and Community Services
Affiliations & Certifications
Affiliations
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon
APANO is an all-volunteer organization dedicated toPan-Asian civic involvement and leadership development.
East Portland Rotary Club
An organization of business and professional leaders with the objective of service in the community, the workplace, and the world.
Greater Hillsboro Area Chamber of Commerce
A networking and information resource for businesses in Hillsboro.
Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber
A non-profit organization that works with all community members to further the economic advancement of Hispanic-owned businesses in Oregon and SW Washington.
HomeFree-USA
A HUD-approved, not-for-profit advocacy and homeownership organization that provides HUD counseling funding to its 80 affiliates.
Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization
IRCO is a non-profit organization promoting the integration of refugees and immigrants and a self-sufficient, healthy, and inclusive multiethnic society.
NeighborWorks America
A national network of more than 230 community development and affordable housing organizations.
National Council of La Raza
This non-profit, non-partisan organization focuses on reducing poverty and discrimination, and improving opportunities for Hispanics.
National NeighborWorks Association
NNWA is a national advocacy association for NeighborWorks Network members.
Oregon Opportunity Network
This statewide association supports and promotes affordable housing and community development.
Philippine-American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon
A non-profit membership organization promoting entrepreneurship in the Filipino-American community.
Portland-Vancouver Realist Association
This local chapter of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers® is comprised of African-American real estate industry professionals.
Urban League of Portland
A non-profit, community-based organization that helps empower African-Americans and others to achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security through a combination of direct services, outreach, and advocacy.
Portland Housing Center Certifications and Licenses
- Community Development Financial Institution, U.S. Department of Treasury
- FHA Title II Approved Lender
- HUD-Certified Housing Counseling Agency
- HUD-approved provider of 2nd mortgage financing
- NeighborWorks America Full-Cycle Lending
- Oregon Mortgage Broker
- Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS)
Annual Reports
Portland Housing Center FY2020 Report
Portland Housing Center FY2019 Report
Portland Housing Center FY2018 Report
Portland Housing Center FY2016 Report
Portland Housing Center FY2015 Report
Portland Housing Center FY2014 Report
Portland Housing Center FY2013 Report
Portland Housing Center FY2012 Report
Careers
At Portland Housing Center, we do everything we can to help families buy their own homes, and our staff is vital to this work. We’re proud to say that the Portland Housing Center has one of the most racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse housing organizations in the region.
Portland Housing Center is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability (in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act) with respect to employment opportunities.
Come join us!
Current openings:
- Pay range: $50,700 – $71,600, DOE
- Resume and cover letters should be sent to: hr@portlandhousingcenter.org
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4 weeks ago
The First Thing To Know About Buying a House Without Putting Your Partner on the Deed
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I had been dating my boyfriend for about six months when I’d finally saved up enough money for a down payment. And though I could picture us eventually moving in together, we weren’t ready to make...Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
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4 weeks ago
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1 month ago
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If you’ve never received a home inspection before, it might be jarring to open up a 60-plus page report that seems to be packed with doom and gloom. (Damaged foundation? Visible wall insulation? Yik...Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
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7 Home Insurance Myths Debunked
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1 month ago
Portland area homes for sale: The market ‘appears to be leveling out’ as prices jump $1,000 in a month
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Although sellers still have the advantage, "buyers can find some relief because there aren’t as many offers to compete with compared to earlier this year,” stated J. Lennox Scott of John L. Scott ...Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Contact Us
Phone: (503) 282-7744
Hours: 9 am-5pm, Monday to Friday
Portland Office
3233 NE Sandy Blvd.
Portland, OR 97232
We’re on the #12 TriMet bus line.
Here’s a map of our Portland location.
Beaverton Office
4900 SW Griffith Dr, Suite 123
Beaverton, OR 97005
Here’s a map of our Beaverton location.
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