Affordable Multi-Family Rental Housing Development
ORFH provides the experience, expertise and staffing to help nonprofits, public housing authorities and others navigate and successfully develop community based affordable multi-family rental housing for low-income rural residents of Washington state (i.e., veterans, senior citizens, families with children). ORFH also works directly with the agricultural community to develop on-farm and near-farm housing serving the needs of both farmworkers and agricultural employers (year-round housing for domestic farmworkers; seasonal housing for domestic farmworkers; as well as farmworker housing for employers of domestic and/or H-2A workers). Services include:
Market analyses of local housing need and demand and analyses of local agricultural trends.
Land assembly, including site inventories and feasibility analyses of suitable parcels, purchase negotiations, preparing option/purchase agreements and environmental assessments.
Applications/negotiations for construction and permanent financing from public and private sources.
Assistance with loan closing, construction processing, project closeout and other owner responsibilities in the development process.
Low interest pre-development loans for land options, architectural work, surveys, soil testing and other costs incurred prior to closing on construction/permanent financing.
Management assistance and training to assure long-term viability.
ORFH offers all the necessary services to obtain capital financing and assure the quality of housing construction and property management.
