Oregon Offers Illegal Aliens Down Payments on a Home, Courtesy of Taxpayers
September 3, 2024
Oregon benefits for illegals
FAIR Take | September 2024
The state of Oregon is funding a program that provides $30,000 in down payment assistance to illegal aliens and legal aliens. The program is being administered by the Hacienda Community Development Corporation (HCDC), a nonprofit in Portland, to first-time homebuyers using hundreds of thousands of dollars granted to the organization by Oregon Business, the state’s economic development agency.
HCDC received taxpayer dollars for its loan program through S.B. 1579, a law adopted by the Oregon legislature in 2022. That law directs Oregon Business to implement an “Economic Equity Investment Program” to award grants to organizations that provide “culturally responsive services to support economic stability, self-sufficiency, wealth building and economic equity among disadvantaged individuals, families, businesses and communities in this state.” The grants must be for the purpose of providing “outreach, support and resources” to those whose future is at risk due to “economic equity risk factors.” One of the “economic equity risk factors” is citizenship.
In May 2023, Hacienda Community Development Corporation received a grant of nearly $700,000 through the Economic Equity Investment Program to provide 21 eligible beneficiaries down payment assistance for a loan. According to the contract HCDC signed with the state, HCDC is required to work with lending institutions that provide home loans to borrowers with individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs). ITINs are identification numbers issued by the IRS to illegal aliens upon request to enable them to file tax returns.
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/state-and-local/oregon-offers-illegal-aliens-down-payments-home-courtesy-taxpayers
