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Business Oregon recommends 11 infrastructure awards from $10M Housing Infrastructure Fund, seeks expenditure limitation
Summary
Business Oregon told a Ways and Means subcommittee it reviewed 31 HIF applications and recommends 11 awards that would obligate the full $10 million in lottery bond proceeds to infrastructure projects enabling an estimated 722 housing units; the agency asked for expenditure limitation to execute contracts after a May 2026 bond sale.
Chris Cummings, deputy director at Business Oregon, and Ed Taber, infrastructure and program services director, presented the agency’s report on the Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) to the Joint Ways and Means Transportation and Economic Development Subcommittee on Feb. 12.
Cummings summarized the program’s purpose: to make loans, grants or forgivable loans to municipalities and eligible entities to fund municipal infrastructure tied to housing development — water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation capacity among the eligible uses. He said the 2025 Legislature…
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