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Nearly 1,000 Oregon households bought homes with this lending program last year

  • Mia Maldonado

Nearly 1,000 Oregon households used a state-sponsored lending program to help buy a home in 2025.  The Flex Lending program, which Oregon Housing and Community Services began developing in 2018, allows low- to moderate-income borrowers to buy homes in the Beaver State with minimal cash upfront and lower interest rates.  Last year, 33 state-approved lenders […]

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Letter to the Editor: Workshop unhelpful

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To the editor: To fulfill a federal requirement, the Mid-Columbia Housing Authority is offering a homebuyers’ workshop for thirty dollars. I took the homebuyers’ workshop last spring. In my experience the instructor did not have accurate information about the real estate market in Wasco County.

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Fee hikes to fund housing

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In June, the cost of recording deeds, mortgages and liens took a 61 percent jump — from $65 to $105 — with all of the increase going to pay for affordable housing in Oregon.