A 23-unit cohousing development in Cathedral Park that prioritizes adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities has secured its final funding gap.

Cathedral Park Cohousing received $1.4 million in Oregon State Lottery Bond funds during the 2026 legislative session, according to a June 22 press release from the project's nonprofit sponsor, Our Home Inclusive Community Collaborative. Gov. Tina Kotek signed the legislation.

Combined with an earlier $2 million award from Oregon Housing and Community Services' Local Innovation and Fast Track (LIFT) program, the project now has the public dollars it needs to break ground.

Alicia DeLashmutt, founder and president of Our Home Inclusive Community Collaborative, has spent years assembling the financing. "While there are 23 units in this development, what we're really building is a place where everyone belongs," DeLashmutt said."The Lottery Bond dollars from the State means we can actually do it."

In cohousing, residents own their individual units but share common spaces and participate in community governance together. The development will sit on a half-acre hillside property in the Cathedral Park neighborhood, with views of Forest Park, the Willamette River, and the St. Johns Bridge.

Of the 23 condos, 14 are reserved for affordable homeownership for buyers earning 80% or less of area median income. The remaining nine units sell at market rate.

Affordable units will be managed through Proud Ground Community Land Trust, Oregon's largest community land trust, which uses a resale-restricted model to keep prices permanently affordable for future buyers.

The project's development consultant, Shane Boland of Owen Gabbert LLC, previously worked on a similar LIFT-funded, land-trust-partnered affordable homeownership project in Milwaukie.

Priority across the project goes to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. According to testimony before the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Capital Construction during the 2026 session, families described a housing market with almost no integrated options for adults with disabilities.

State Representatives Shannon Isadore and Rob Nosse championed the funding in the legislature. The award passed with full support from the Ways and Means Joint Subcommittee on Capital Construction.

Four market-rate units remained available for presale as of June 22. The nonprofit projects move-in for early 2028.