About Salem-Keizer CDC:

Salem-Keizer CDC's mission is to build community by stabilizing neighborhoods and empowering families. We create safe, high quality, affordable housing and provide families with opportunities and connections to community resources to achieve economic prosperity.

Founded in 1993, Salem-Keizer Community Development Corporation (Salem - Keizer CDC) is a local nonprofit organization of neighbors helping neighbors. Since 2000, Salem-Keizer CDC has been actively developing clean and safe affordable rental housing for individuals and families earning 60% or less of median income.

What are Community Development Corporations? Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are nonprofit organizations chartered in a specific community to serve the needs of that community. The one thing all CDCs in Oregon have in common is developing affordable housing, or housing on which people spend 30% or less of their gross income. In order to make housing affordable, CDCs use a combination of federal, state, and private money to subsidize the cost developing and building the housing. In the last 10 years, Association of Oregon Community Development Organizations (AOCDO) members have developed roughly 9000 units of housing at a total development cost of over $500 million.

CDCs are also involved with a variety of other activities, including, but not limited to, economic development and job creation; workforce development; community safety programs; individual development accounts; developing commercial space; and micro enterprise and business incubators.

Salem-Keizer CDC currently offers a variety of activities including, Rental housing, Homeownership Education, Financial Education, Micro-Enterprise Development Education, Individual Development Accounts and Resident Services.