CENTRAL OREGON -- The Oregon Housing Authority has awarded Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program Funding Awards to Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity. The awards are known as LIFT according to Habitat Executive Director Scott Rohrer He says an award went to a 10-unit development in Redmond called Quince Townhomes. Rohrer says two other affordable housing projects…Yeoman Townhomes in Bend and 27TH Bend…also received LIFT money and construction will start after the first of next year. He says helping people become homeowners changes their lives for the better on many different levels.
