Our History

The Community Housing Resource Center is an outcome of eighteen months of intensive research by the Community Reinvestment Alliance (CRA) Working Group appointed by the city of Vancouver in 1993.  This research revealed that there is a wide array of home ownership assistance programs available for low/moderate income first time homebuyers but unfortunately knowledge of their availability is not widespread.  The principal recommendation of the CRA Working Group was the formation of a Housing Center to remove this barrier by facilitating the process of home ownership through education and counseling and under a ‘no pressure environment’.

Our young friend can't believe she has her own room. But we knew she could do it.

We have a comprehensive housing counseling and education program. Our program is designed to promote homeownership through education and counseling.  We are a unique public/private partnership non-profit organization.  Our partners include the City, County, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, private foundations, lender foundations, mortgage companies, title companies, local lenders, corporations, businesses, appraiser companies, home insurance companies, Clark County Association of Realtors, Clark County Home Builders Association, and individual donors.

The Community Housing Resource Center was one of the top five organizations nationwide to receive the prestigious Fannie Mae Partners in Housing National Award in 1996 and 1997.  In 1998, the Center also received special recognition for the third Oregon Governor’s Partnership Award and several others.