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Her Agency Distributes Billions for Housing Projects. Her Husband’s Company Helped Develop Some of Them.

Andrea Bell, director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, at a groundbreaking ceremony in 2025 Oregon Housing and Community Services As head of Oregon’s housing finance agency, Andrea Bell oversees a lot of taxpayer money. Oregon Housing and Community Services has handed developers more than $1.4 billion in state funding to build rent-restricted apartments over the last five years — and even more counting federal tax credits the agency allocates. Bell’s husband, Joshua Crites, works…

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