grant street grow homes
grant street grow homes
Growing Homeowner Diversity through Middle Housing
2025 | 1930 Grant Street, Eugene, Oregon
Located in an underutilized backyard in the Far West neighborhood of Eugene, the Grant Street Grow Homes concept offers a scalable model for anti-displacement, pro-empowerment middle housing.
Cultivate’s role: developer & architect
The project:
- Features efficient homes designed for first-time buyers, including:
- (3) Grow homes allowing DIY expansion
- (1) Accessible ground-floor home
- Is based on a Shared Equity Homeownership model, offering permanent affordability through deed restriction
- Features Net Zero Energy – sustainable construction and low utility bills, contributing to city and state sustainability goals
- Helps to address our housing crisis by offering anti-displacement homeownership in a gentrifying, walkable neighborhood
The townhomes provide permanently affordable homeownership geared towards first-time Latino home buyers, young and old, at the 61% to 80% AMI level.
What’s a “grow home”?
Three of the homes can “grow,” each starting as a one-bedroom, one-bathroom townhome but with plumbing and electrical systems in place to enable conversion to a three-bedroom, two-bathroom townhome. This lowers the up-front cost barrier to homeownership while anticipating the needs of growing families.
A fourth ground-level home integrates accessibility into the fabric of an existing neighborhood and offers senior populations an opportunity to age-in-community, not just age-in-place. The homes further sustainability goals through Net Zero Energy construction and by enhancing the people-density necessary to support neighborhood walkability and transit frequency.
Though small in scale, the Grant Street Grow Homes demonstrate how an otherwise gentrifying neighborhood can instead become an incubator of socio-economic diversity through permanently affordable homeownership.
Resources
Affordable Housing Trust Fund Award
Plan library: Grow Home
1 Bedroom at Sale (opportunity for expansion)
2-3 Bedroom DIY Expansion
Growing Homeowner Diversity through Middle Housing
2025 | 1930 Grant St, Eugene, Oregon
Cultivate’s role: developer & architect
Bedroom at Sale (Left) & 2-3 Bedroom DIY Expansion (Right)
Located in an underutilized backyard in the Far West neighborhood of Eugene, the Grant Street Grow Homes concept offers a scalable model for anti-displacement, pro-empowerment middle housing.
The project:
- Features efficient homes designed for first-time buyers, including:
- (3) Grow homes allowing DIY expansion
- (1) Accessible ground-floor home
- Includes outreach to local Latinx businesses and nonprofits
- Is based on a Shared Equity Homeownership model, offering permanent affordability through deed restriction
- Features Net Zero Energy – sustainable construction and low utility bills, contributing to city and state sustainability goals
- Helps to address our housing crisis by offering anti-displacement homeownership in a gentrifying, walkable neighborhood
The townhomes provide permanently affordable homeownership geared towards first-time Latino home buyers, young and old, at the 61% to 80% AMI level.
What’s a “grow home”?
Three of the homes can “grow,” each starting as a one-bedroom, one-bathroom townhome but with plumbing and electrical systems in place to enable conversion to a three-bedroom, two-bathroom townhome. This lowers the up-front cost barrier to homeownership while anticipating the needs of growing families.
A fourth ground-level home integrates accessibility into the fabric of an existing neighborhood and offers senior populations an opportunity to age-in-community, not just age-in-place. The homes further sustainability goals through Net Zero Energy construction and by enhancing the people-density necessary to support neighborhood walkability and transit frequency.
Though small in scale, the Grant Street Grow Homes demonstrate how an otherwise gentrifying neighborhood can instead become an incubator of socio-economic diversity through permanently affordable homeownership.
Resources
Affordable Housing Trust Fund Award
Plan library: Grow Home
This is an anti-displacement, pro-empowerment model of housing—one that enables successive generations of households, who would otherwise be limited to rental housing, to retain their own equity rather than build their landlord’s. This type of small-scale “affordable inclusion” incubator will provide a precedent for many other developments in Eugene on parcels that are now developable under Oregon’s new middle housing opportunity.