The Community Housing Resource Center provides education and counseling services to individuals and families in Southwest Washington and throughout the Portland metro area in Oregon.  In the past 15 years, the Center has worked with over 23,500 households.  Over 5,000 of which have purchased a home within one year of working with the Center.

Services include:  financial education and credit repair and financial management counseling, first-time homebuyer counseling, certified homebuyer education classes, assistance with applications for special first-time homebuyer loans and closing cost assistance for qualified buyers, a Lease Purchase homeownership program and long-term preparation to become first-time homeowners.  Other services include mortgage default prevention counseling and assistance to senior citizens to safely use home equity as a means to supplement their incomes through reverse mortgages.

Budget, credit, debt management and foreclosure prevention counseling services are available in both Spanish and English.

The Center provides its services to all community residents and families, the majority of those who receive services are of low to moderate income.

CHRC Staff

Teri Duffy, Executive Director - Overall agency supervision.  To contact, call: 360-690-4496, x100 or e-mail teri@homecen.org.

Kevin Gillette, Program Manager - Homeownership counseling, volunteers, teaches classes and orientations.  To contact, call: 360-690-4496, x101 or e-mail kevin@homecen.org.

Carlos Garcia, Financial Counselor - Provides bilingual (Spanish/English) budget, credit, debt management and foreclosure prevention counseling services.  To contact, call: 360-690-4496 x107 or e-mail carlos@homecen.org.

Daniel Couch, Executive Assistant - Assists the Executive Director with administrative and fundraising activities.  To contact, call: 360-690-4496 x104 or e-mail daniel@homecen.org.

Sue Pupo, Office Manager - Provides day-to-day operations support.  To contact, call: 360-690-4496 x103 or e-mail sue@homecen.org.