Community Frameworks is a non-profit organization helping to restore distressed houses in Bremerton, Washington while helping approved home buyers with down payment assistance. In 1974, citizens in Spokane, Washington created Northwest Regional Foundation (NRF) to gain a citizen voice in the use of federal Community Development Block Grant money that had become available for the “betterment of communities.” With the name later modified to Northwest Regional Facilitators, NRF dedicated its efforts to “helping individuals, groups and communities overcome obstacles and seize opportunities to create their preferred futures

Beginning in 2004, NRF decided to focus directly on its affordable housing strengths, and so spun off its related but separate elements into separate nonprofit organizations. Known today as Community Frameworks, the organization’s primary focus is on housing. Community Frameworks provides services that include affordable rental opportunities, homeownership education and development, affordable housing development services for other organizations, technical assistance to other community housing groups, and pass-through lending to homeownership production programs in the region

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