Participant information
Entity Name: Oregon
Type of Recipient: State/DC
UEID: CJUQKQUXSCJ5
TIN: 930952117
DUNS+4: 809580293
FAIN Number: HAF0027
Address: 725 Summer St. NE, Suite B
City: Salem
State: Oregon
Zip: 97301-1266
Report Status: Submitted
Date Submitted: 11/15/2023, 1:09 p.m.
Submitted by: Ryan Vanden Brink, ryan.vandenbrink@hcs.oregon.gov
Certified by: Ryan Vanden Brink
Point of Contact List:
| Beth Brown | Assistant Director of Accounting
| beth.brown@hcs.oregon.gov
| ERA - Account Administrator; ERA - Point of Contact for Submission; ERA - Point of Contact for Reporting; ERA - Authorized Representative; ERA2 - Point of Contact for Submission; ERA2 - Point of Contact for Reporting; HAF - Point of Contact for Submission; HAF - Point of Contact for Reporting; HAF - Authorized Representative
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Joass Lyatuu
| Senior Finance Policy Analyst
| joass.lyatuu@oregon.gov
| CRF - Authorized Representative; ERA - Point of Contact for Reporting; ERA - Authorized Representative; ERA2 - Point of Contact for Reporting; ERA2 - Authorized Representative; HAF - Point of Contact for Reporting; HAF - Authorized Representative; SLFRF - Point of Contact for Reporting; SLFRF - Authorized Representative
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Ryan Vanden Brink
| Asstistant Director of Homeowner Assistance Programs
| ryan.vandenbrink@hcs.oregon.gov
| HAF - Account Administrator; HAF - Point of Contact for Reporting; HAF - Authorized Representative
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| Nathan Merrill | Data and Reporting Analyst | nathan.merrill@hcs.oregon.gov
| HAF - Point of Contact for Reporting
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Andrew Dennis
| Operations and Policy Analyst | andrew.dennis@hcs.oregon.gov
| HAF - Point of Contact for Reporting
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Rachel Barber
| HAF Accountant
| rachel.barber@hcs.oregon.gov
| HAF - Point of Contact for Reporting
|
Community engagement and outreach
- Did you continue outreach to communities over the past 23 (Oct. 1, 2022 - Sept. 30, 2023)?
Yes
- Please quantify the total amount of funds spent on outreach.
$32,373.55
You identified the community-based organizations listed below in your HAF Participant Plan or a previous report. Please indicate whether or not you have performed outreach in the past 12 months (Oct. 1, 2022 - Sept. 30, 2023) to each organization or provider by tapping "Provide Data" and selecting Yes or No.
Catholic Charities
| Community Organization
| | |
Consulate of Mexico
| Community Organization
| | X
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Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon
| Community Organization
| | X
|
Bridges
| Community Organization
| | |
Condensed public meeting attendance list
| Community Organization
| | |
Oregon Housing Alliance
| Community Organization
|
| X
|
Governor's Racial Justice Council
| Community Organization
| | |
Oregon Manufactured Housing Advisory Committee
| Community Organization
| |
|
Farmworker Housing Development Corp
| Provider
| | X
|
Legal Aid Services of Oregon
| Provider
| | X
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Elemental Law
| Provider
| | X
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Oregon Law Center
| Provider
| | X
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Oregon DOJ, Consumer Protection
| Provider
| |
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17 statewide homeownership centers providing housing counseling
| Provider
| | X
|
Performance goals
Help reduce serious delinquencies
| Mortgage Reinstatement
| Goal Met | | X
|
| Serve a substantial number of at-risk Oregonians | Mortgage Reinstatement
| Goal Met
| | X
|
Help prevent foreclosures
| Mortgage Payment Assistance
| Goal Met
| | X
|
See above goals
| Mortgage Payment Assistance
| On Track
| | |
See above goals
| Payment Assistance for Homeowner’s Insurance
| On Track
| | |
See above goals
| Payment Assistance for Delinquent Property Taxes
| On Track
| | |
Maintain SDI homeownership
| Mortgage Reinstatement
| On Track
| | X
|
See above goals
| Payment Assistance for HOA fees or liens
| On Track
| | |
See above goals
| Payment Assistance for Down Payment Assistance Loans
| On Track
| | |
Methods for targeting
- Please provide an update on your targeting plan including challenges successes, etc.
OHCS continued to target outreach as indicated in its HAF plan and 2022 annual report. In addition, this past year, OHCS attempted to address a prior challenge of better reaching Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Chinese communities. OHCS put in place static translations of its application portal in all of these languages, updated translations of key materials and conducted outreach so communities may know of resources in different languages. HAF reached out to three Russian, three Vietnamese, three Chinese, and three other Asian cultural organizations.
One challenge was creating new relationships with organizations that are not traditional partners,
emphasizing the need for regular engagement and outreach. HAF reached out to three culturally specific media companies and was profiled in a Spanish newspaper. HAF worked with a counselor grantee to participate in a tri-county BIPOC-centered housing resource festival, prepared materials for an urban Native American organization’s homeownership fair, participated in a Chinese community fair, and partnered with Oregon Dept. of Human Services and Oregon Health Authority on Facebook live events and other agency social media content. HAF social media
tiles and program materials were made available for organizations and partners to use as needed.
Applicants affirmatively indicating a non-English primary language increased from 41 up to Sept. 30, 2022, to 149 submitted apps between Oct. 1, 2022, and Sept. 30, 2023. OHCS continued to work with grantees on local outreach and stretched the budget by collaborating with a Homeownership Racial Disparities grant on translation and outreach.
- Is the targeting plan put forth in the HAF Plan achieving the desired results? Yes
Best practices and coordination
- Have you coordinated with any of these agencies (FHA, VA, USDA, GSEs, state or local agencies that hold mortgage portfolios)? If so, please provide best practices and information on coordination efforts.
- Yes. OHCS is serving borrowers with all of these types of loans. OHCS coordinated regarding specific applications with USDA, OHCS (mortgage portfolio) and several counties regarding pilot repurchase opportunities for homeowners
- Have you coordinated with servicers? If so, please provide best practices and information on coordination efforts.
- Yes. OHCS has seen an improvement in postponing and monitoring foreclosures with national servicers, although it can still be a struggle with smaller servicers or private lenders. This can be tested when a homeowner submits a last-minute application and OHCS has worked with a servicer to reverse a foreclosure this year. Overall, this collaboration is a key OHCS priority to avoid homeowner loss.
OHCS is also working to improve record responses and time frames, especially with P records and T records to facilitate certainty as soon as possible after final payments are made. We hope to establish and improve patterns with servicers in the same way over the next year.
Certification
Statement
I certify that the information provided is accurate and complete after reasonable inquiry of people, systems, and other information available to the HAF participant. The undersigned acknowledges that any materially false, fictitious, fraudulent statement, or representation (or concealment or omission of a material fact) in this submission may be the subject of criminal prosecution under the False Statements Accountability Act of 1996, as amended, 18 USC 1001, and also may subject me and the HAF participant to civil penalties, damages, and administrative remedies for false claims or otherwise (including under 31 USC 3729 et seq.) The undersigned is an authorized representative of the HAF participant with authority to make the above certifications and representations on behalf of the HAF participant.
- How much in interest did you earn on HAF award funds in your last fiscal year?
$0
If you earned interest in excess of $500, did you remit that excess earned interest to the Department of Health and Human Services Payment Management System (PMS)?
N/A – Interest earned less than $500.