What are the responsibilities and job description for the Housing Director (Director II) position at City of Portland?
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Position Summary:
The City of Portland, Oregon, seeks an experienced, visionary, equity-centered executive to serve as its next Housing Director. This is an opportunity to lead one of the nation’s most complex, consequential, and evolving housing organizations – shaping how Portland responds to housing affordability, homelessness, shelter, and the broader housing continuum. This role offers the chance to bring people together, strengthen the Portland Housing Bureau, and help build a coordinated, effective, customer-focused system to ensure long-term, improved housing affordability for all Portlanders.
As the City of Portland’s chief administrative and housing policy official, the Director leads the Portland Housing Bureau (PHB) in addressing the community’s needs along the homelessness-to-housing continuum. The Director oversees comprehensive programs that finance and preserve affordable rental housing, expand homeownership, prevent displacement, protect renters, and support initiatives to end homelessness. PHB serves as both a major municipal funder and collaborative convener, regulating an expanding portfolio of more than 19,000 affordable housing units across the city.
The incoming Director steps into the role during a period of significant civic and organizational transformation. In addition to supporting the modernization of Portland’s municipal governance structure and the systems that support it, the Director plays a vital role in post-pandemic economic recovery, partnering across sectors to revitalize Portland’s downtown core through expanded and innovative housing opportunities. The Director manages substantial capital investments, including Tax Increment Financing, federal entitlement grants such as Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and HOME, local housing bond revenues, and the City’s General Fund, among others.
The Director reports directly to the Deputy City Administrator for the Community and Economic Development Service Area and works in partnership with other City bureaus and programs. Working in close collaboration with City leadership, Metro, the Multnomah County Homeless Services Department, Oregon Housing and Community Services, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), community-based nonprofits, culturally specific providers, and private developers, the Director will be a crucial nexus in advancing housing justice and delivering reliable, sustainable, community-wide solutions.
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