North Bend City/Coos-Curry Housing Authorities

North Bend City/Coos-Curry Housing Authorities Promote, preserve, and provide residents of the South Coast with safe, sanitary affordable housing.

Partnerships matter.This week, I had the opportunity to tour the new Del Norte County Emergency Shelter with Curry Count...
06/02/2026

Partnerships matter.

This week, I had the opportunity to tour the new Del Norte County Emergency Shelter with Curry County Commissioner Lynn Coker and Darrin Short, Vice-Chair of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors, and share the story behind how this vision became reality.

What makes this project remarkable is not simply the building itself—it is the collaboration that brought it to life. Over the past several years, Del Norte County, community organizations, service providers, local leaders, and dedicated community members came together around a shared goal: creating a pathway from homelessness to stability and housing.

As housing professionals, we know that no single organization can solve homelessness alone. Sustainable solutions require partnerships between local government, nonprofits, healthcare providers, housing organizations, and community stakeholders working toward a common vision.

The shelter is an important milestone, but the larger achievement is the system that has been built around it. Outreach, shelter, housing navigation, supportive services, and community partnerships all play a role in helping individuals and families move toward long-term housing stability.

I was grateful for the opportunity to share this journey with Commissioner Coker and Vice-Chair Short and discuss how communities can learn from one another as they strengthen their own housing and homelessness response systems.

Thank you to Del Norte County, Del Norte Mission Possible, Daphne Cortese-Lambert, and the entire team for opening your doors and sharing your experience. The work being done in Del Norte County demonstrates what is possible when public agencies, nonprofits, and community partners align around a shared vision and commit to seeing it through.

For communities across rural America, projects like this are a reminder that lasting solutions are built through relationships, persistence, and a willingness to work together.

Read the full blogs here:

https://ccnbchas.org/a-new-chapter-in-del-norte-countys-response-to-homelessness/

https://delnortemissionpossible.org/see-the-impact/f/del-norte-countys-new-emergency-sh

Senior homelessness is not just a housing issue.It is our parents.It is our grandparents.It is the people who built our ...
05/29/2026

Senior homelessness is not just a housing issue.

It is our parents.
It is our grandparents.
It is the people who built our communities, raised families, served in our military, worked our farms, staffed our hospitals, taught our children, and spent decades contributing to society.

Many of them did everything they were told to do. They worked hard, paid their bills, and planned for retirement.

Yet today, more older adults are finding themselves one rent increase, one medical emergency, or one unexpected crisis away from losing their homes.

The fastest-growing demographic experiencing homelessness in America is seniors.

That should concern all of us.

No one should spend the final chapter of their life sleeping in a vehicle, living in a shelter, or wondering where they will spend the night.

A community can often be measured by how it treats its most vulnerable residents. Our seniors deserve more than survival. They deserve dignity, stability, safety, and a place to call home.

As the population ages, we must invest in affordable senior housing, supportive services, healthcare partnerships, and prevention strategies that help older adults remain housed before they ever experience homelessness.

Because homelessness should never be the retirement plan for the people who helped build the world we inherited.

These are not statistics.

These are our parents.

These are our grandparents.

And they deserve better.

This is why Anchor Point Housing in Gold Beach is being dedicated to low income seniors at risk of homelessness.

There’s a dangerous and persistent myth that Housing Authorities “do not pay their way” because we are tax exempt.The tr...
05/28/2026

There’s a dangerous and persistent myth that Housing Authorities “do not pay their way” because we are tax exempt.

The truth is far more complicated and far more important.

Housing Authorities are mission-driven government entities created to stabilize communities, leverage outside investment, and strengthen local economies.

Affordable housing is not simply a cost.
It is economic infrastructure.

At North Bend City / Coos-Curry Housing Authorities, we distribute more than $6.1 million annually in housing assistance directly into the local economy through payments to private landlords, property owners, and housing providers.

At the same time, developments like North Bend Family Housing are bringing millions of dollars of new investment into Oregon’s South Coast.
North Bend Family Housing Phase I is now over 80% complete, with roughly 30% of labor connected to local workers and contractors. Out-of-town construction crews are also living, eating, shopping, and spending money throughout our local communities every day during construction.

That is real economic activity.
That is local investment.
That is workforce stabilization.

Housing development supports:

✔ Local jobs
✔ Local businesses
✔ Workforce recruitment and retention
✔ Schools and families
✔ Healthcare stability
✔ Economic growth
✔ Reduced public system costs

Housing Authorities are not designed to maximize profit.
We are designed to maximize community stability, long-term housing opportunity, and responsible public investment.

The question should not simply be:

“How much tax revenue does affordable housing generate?”

The question should be:

“What happens to communities when housing disappears?”

Because without housing:
Employers cannot retain workers
Healthcare systems cannot recruit staff
Families become unstable
Homelessness increases
Public costs rise dramatically
Housing is not separate from economic development.
Housing IS economic development.

The housing continuum only works when the system is actually connected.Too often, outreach, emergency shelter, behaviora...
05/28/2026

The housing continuum only works when the system is actually connected.

Too often, outreach, emergency shelter, behavioral health, affordable housing, Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH), and long-term stability planning are all operating in separate silos with different priorities, timelines, and funding structures.

The result is a fragmented pipeline where people fall through the cracks and cycle back into crisis.

This graphic breaks down the difference between a disconnected system and a coordinated one.

When Coordinated Entry (CE), shelter systems, outreach teams, behavioral health providers, affordable housing developers, and PSH programs are intentionally aligned, people move forward instead of backward.

That is the foundation of the SPARC Model:

SPARC = Service Providers and Regional Connections.

It is about building regional ecosystems where providers are connected through:

• Shared goals
• Communication
• Data coordination
• Housing pathways
• Regional collaboration
• Continuous feedback loops

Communities do not solve homelessness by creating more disconnected programs.

They solve it by intentionally building connected systems that move people from crisis to long-term stability.

This is the work of systems building.
This is the work of alignment.
This is the work of SPARC.

05/28/2026

April’s drone footage from North Bend Family Housing Phase I really puts into perspective just how far this project has come. Huge credit to LMC Construction and the entire development team for the incredible progress happening on site every single day.

We are now officially over the 80% completion mark for Phase I.

What was once an abandoned school property is transforming into 105 units of affordable housing for families, seniors, workforce households, and Permanent Supportive Housing residents right here on the South Coast.

This project represents years of planning, partnerships, persistence, and belief that rural communities deserve major housing investments too.

By the time Phase I is complete, North Bend Family Housing will provide:

• 105 affordable housing units
• 20 Permanent Supportive Housing units
• 30 Project-Based Voucher units
• Onsite supportive services
• Modern, energy-efficient family housing

And we are not stopping there. Phase II is already moving forward.

This is what it looks like when communities decide to build their way forward.

Thank you to our partners, funders, contractors, local supporters, and everyone helping make this happen.

The next chapter is under construction.

Video credits to LMC Construction

The housing continuum only works when we stop building systems in isolation.Too often, emergency shelter, outreach, supp...
05/28/2026

The housing continuum only works when we stop building systems in isolation.

Too often, emergency shelter, outreach, supportive housing, affordable housing, behavioral health, workforce housing, and homeownership pathways are planned as separate conversations with separate funding streams, priorities, and timelines.

The result is a fragmented system where people fall into the gaps between programs instead of moving through a connected pathway toward stability.

This graphic represents a different way of thinking.

Like railroad tracks being built from opposite directions, every part of the housing continuum must be constructed with the other in mind. Shelter systems should be designed knowing where people transition next. Affordable housing strategies should account for behavioral health and supportive service needs. Permanent housing development should connect back to outreach, prevention, and stabilization efforts.

If the tracks are not aligned, the system never connects.

The future of housing and homelessness response is not about creating more disconnected programs. It is about intentionally building a continuum where each piece moves toward the others until the entire system functions as one coordinated pathway.

That is the work of systems building.
That is the work of alignment.

That is how communities move from managing homelessness to creating lasting housing stability.

Earlier this week we had the opportunity to give a tour of North Bend Family Housing and connect with leadership from th...
05/24/2026

Earlier this week we had the opportunity to give a tour of North Bend Family Housing and connect with leadership from the The Salvation Army Cascade Division about the work happening on the South Coast.

One of the biggest takeaways from the conversation was how important partnership and alignment are in building successful Permanent Supportive Housing systems in rural communities.

The Salvation Army Coos Bay Corps has already been playing an important role in helping support Coordinated Entry, outreach, housing readiness, and connection efforts that will help households successfully transition into the PSH units at North Bend Family Housing. Through outreach, relationship building, navigation support, and community trust, they are helping create real pathways from homelessness to housing.

What excites me most is that this conversation was not just about one project. It was about what becomes possible when housing, outreach, behavioral health, and faith-based organizations intentionally work together as part of a larger system.

We also spent time discussing future partnership opportunities and how organizations across the region can continue strengthening the bridge between outreach, shelter, supportive services, and permanent housing.
This is the kind of systems-building work rural communities need more of. Not isolated programs. Connected pathways.

The next chapter is still under construction.

Yesterday’s drone shot of North Bend Family Housing Phase I captures something bigger than just construction progress. I...
05/22/2026

Yesterday’s drone shot of North Bend Family Housing Phase I captures something bigger than just construction progress. It captures momentum, partnership, and the reality that affordable housing is actively being built on the South Coast.

What was once the former Bangor School site is now transforming into 105 new affordable housing units for families, seniors, and individuals in our community, including Permanent Supportive Housing units connected to services and long-term stability pathways.

This development represents years of planning, collaboration, public investment, and persistence from countless partners who believed our rural communities deserve the same quality housing opportunities as anywhere else in Oregon.

A huge thank you to our development, construction, architecture, funding, and community partners who continue helping move this vision forward every day.
We are excited to continue sharing progress as we move closer to welcoming residents home in 2026.

Thank you LMC Construction for building and tracking this sites progress!!

Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to give a tour of North Bend Family Housing to the lead Energy Advisor support...
05/15/2026

Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to give a tour of North Bend Family Housing to the lead Energy Advisor supporting existing multifamily housing in Southern Oregon through Energy Trust of Oregon and TRC, the Program Management Contractor helping administer these efforts.

Our agencies have been working closely with their team to stack and braid incentives through Energy Trust and OR-MEP to help preserve and modernize our aging affordable housing portfolio across the South Coast. It was meaningful to also show them North Bend Family Housing — a new construction development they also helped support through energy efficiency investment and partnership.

These partnerships matter. Rural housing preservation and development takes collaboration, creativity, and long-term investment. We are grateful for partners willing to help communities like ours improve housing quality, reduce long-term operating costs, and build more sustainable affordable housing for the future.

Thank you the LMC Construction for continuing to host these vital community tours!!

01/18/2026

CCD Business Development Corporation was proud to serve as a partner and sponsor for Let’s Build the South Coast, the largest housing summit to date, held at Ko-Kwel Casino & Resort.
This full-day event, coordinated by Southern Oregon Coast Regional Housing in collaboration with Missing Middle Housing Fund, brought together developers, lenders, employers, nonprofits, workforce leaders, and public officials with one shared goal: creating attainable workforce housing for Oregon’s South Coast.
By the end of the day, ideas turned into action with five cross-sector working groups forming around funding, design, workforce pipelines, permitting, and new development partnerships. That’s collaboration doing real work, not just exchanging business cards.
CCD is proud to help move this momentum forward and support solutions that allow people to live and work locally. When aligned partners show up with purpose, progress follows.

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North Bend, OR
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