HB3503 • 2025

Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Community LendingWorks to provide grants to purchase housing in Clackamas County that will be made available through a community land trust as affordable housing to first-time home buyers.

Housing

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Representative Dobson,, Hartman,, Neron, Representative Gamba,, Nguyen H,, Walters
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Community LendingWorks to provide grants to purchase housing in Clackamas County that will be made available through a community land trust as affordable housing to first-time home buyers.

Digest: This Act makes OHCS give money to charity to turn Clackamas County homes into low-cost starter homes.

What This Bill Does

Digest: This Act makes OHCS give money to charity to turn Clackamas County homes into low-cost starter homes.
(Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Community LendingWorks to provide grants to purchase housing in Clackamas County that will be made available through a community land trust as affordable housing to first-time home buyers.
Appropriates moneys for this program.

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-12 House
Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-03-12 House
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-03-10 House
Work Session held.
2025-03-03 House
Public Hearing held.
2025-02-06 House
Referred to Housing and Homelessness with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-02-04 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act makes OHCS give money to charity to turn Clackamas County homes into low-cost starter homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Community LendingWorks to provide grants to purchase housing in Clackamas County that will be made available through a community land trust as affordable housing to first-time home buyers. Appropriates moneys for this program.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to Clackamas County community land trust housing; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3503
Sponsored by Representative DOBSON
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act makes OHCS give money to charity to turn Clackamas County homes into
low-cost starter homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to disburse moneys to Community
LendingWorks to provide grants to purchase housing in Clackamas County that will be made avail-
able through a community land trust as affordable housing to first-time home buyers. Appropriates
moneys for this program.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to Clackamas County community land trust housing; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 458.
SECTION 2. (1) The Housing and Community Services Department shall disburse moneys
to Community LendingWorks to provide grants to public benefit corporations to:
(a) Acquire affordable housing owned by the Housing Authority of Clackamas County;
(b) Repair and renovate the housing for energy efficiency and to make the housing eligi-
ble for refinancing;
(c) Operate the housing as a community land trust, which must include maintaining each
housing unit as affordable housing for purchase as described in subsection (2) of this section;
and
(d) Provide home buyer education and counseling to purchasers and prospective pur-
chasers of the housing.
(2) Each housing unit sold must be made available only to first-time home buyers and
subject to an affordability restriction, such as a restriction as described in ORS 456.270 to
456.295, that:
(a) Has the effect of limiting the purchaser’s ability to gain equity from the appreciation
of the dwelling’s value; and
(b) Requires that the purchaser be a low income household as defined in ORS 456.270.
SECTION 3.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2028.
SECTION 4. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Housing and Community Services Department, for the biennium beginning July
1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $4,200,000, to disburse to Community
LendingWorks for the purposes in section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 5. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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