Simpson Ave Site Award

Deschutes County land to be sold to develop more than 100 units of affordable housing are on the horizon now in west Bend after Deschutes County commissioners voted to sell 7 acres of county land to Housing Works and Kôr Community Land Trust. Housing Works, which is Central Oregon’s housing authority, and RootedHomes, a nonprofit that focuses on affordable homeownership, were chosen out of five proposals for the land.