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Home financing in Clackamas County.

County-by-county financing guides. No paperwork. No social. No ID.

4 institutions are headquartered inside the Clackamas County line, and 6 more keep a branch here. Below, we say which is which.

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In this county10DOORS IN THIS COUNTY
4HEADQUARTERED HERE
2CDFI-CERTIFIED
6KEEP A BRANCH HERE
THE DIRECTORY

The doors in Clackamas County.

The CDFIs, credit unions, and microlenders that actually say yes — county by county, in two languages. We are not a lender. Nobody paid to be listed. And where a county has no good doors, we say so.

THE MAP OF DOORSOregon
Clackamas County
10
DOORS HERE
4
BASED HERE
32
OR COUNTIES WITH DOORS
At a glance
Lane
Home Financing
People
421Kresidents of Clackamas County
Elsewhere in OR
Multnomah County →22 doors — the biggest list of any other county in Oregon
State
Oregon →32 of 36 counties hold a door in this lane
LEER ESTO EN ESPAÑOL
WHO SAYS YES HERE
2of 10CDFIs

Certified by the U.S. Treasury to lend where a bank will not. Nonprofit, patient, and used to a file that is not clean.

Cutting Edge Credit Union · Rivermark Community Credit Union
10of 10Credit unions

Owned by their members, not by shareholders. They look at your whole story rather than a score, and that is the difference when a bank says no.

Cutting Edge Credit Union · Embold Credit Union
Headquartered in Clackamas County4
  • Cutting Edge Credit UnionCDFI-certifiedMilwaukie · Credit union
    Personal · Home
  • Embold Credit UnionOregon City · Credit union
    Personal · Home · Business capital
  • Forrit Credit UnionClackamas · Credit union
    Personal · Home
  • Rivermark Community Credit UnionCDFI-certifiedOregon City · Credit union
    Personal · Home · Business capital
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OPEN DOORS IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Keeps a branch in Clackamas County6

Based elsewhere, with a member-facing office inside the Clackamas County line. You can walk in.

  • Hapo Community Credit UnionRichland · Credit union
    Personal · Home · Business capital
  • Marion and Polk Schools Credit UnionSalem · Credit union
    Personal · Home · Business capital
  • Nw Priority Credit UnionPortland · Credit union
    Personal · Home
  • Operating Engineers Local Union #3 Credit UnionLivermore · Credit union
    Personal · Home · Business capital
  • Ukrainian Credit UnionRochester · Credit union
    Personal · Home · Business capital
  • IN THIS LIST

    2 of the 10 doors inside the county line are CDFI-certified.

    The U.S. Treasury certifies them to lend to the people banks pass over. It is a loan, not a favour.

  • Unitus Community Credit UnionTigard · Credit union
    Personal · Home · Business capital
National — works with an ITIN3
  • Mission Asset FundAccepts ITINSan Francisco · National nonprofit lender

    Zero-interest lending circles and credit building. SSN or ITIN accepted. Works through nonprofit partners across the country.

    Personal
  • Accion Opportunity FundAccepts ITINSan Jose · National nonprofit lender

    Nonprofit small-business lender. Accepts ITIN in place of SSN. Serves most states, in English and Spanish.

    Business capital
  • Grameen AmericaAccepts ITINNew York · National nonprofit lender

    Microloans for women entrepreneurs. Requires photo ID and proof of address — no SSN requirement. Branches in major metro areas.

    Business capital
THE SMALL PRINT

How to read this list.

No agenda

We do not ask for your name, your email, or your number. Nothing on this page changes based on who you are.

Based here vs. serves here

A door is headquartered here when its head office sits inside the county line. The rest are based elsewhere and keep a branch you can walk into. We list both, and we label which is which.

Where this comes from

Every institution on this page comes from public federal data — the CDFI Fund certified list (Aug 2026), NCUA credit union data (Jun 2026), and the SBA microloan intermediary list (Sep 2026) — plus a short national tier we verified by hand. We refresh each list as its agency publishes. No listing is paid.

THE GUIDE

Buying a home in Clackamas County is within reach for many solo contractors, mixed-status families, and first-time buyers — especially when you work with local lenders who know the area. This guide walks you through what home financing is, who can qualify, what paperwork you will need, and which local institutions genuinely serve Clackamas County residents. We also flag Oregon-specific programs that can lower your costs and point out common traps to avoid. Origen Capital is a directory, not a lender — we help you find the right door to knock on.

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ON THE GROUNDClackamas County, Oregon.
WHERE TO START

The doors worth knowing.

ALL 10 DOORS, BY NAME AND BY TOWN
THE COUNTRY AROUND ITClackamas County
Clackamas County
10
DOORS HERE
46
ACROSS OR
CREDIT UNIONCDFI-certifiedCutting Edge Credit Union

Based in Milwaukie, Oregon. A credit union — owned by its members rather than by shareholders, which is exactly what changes the conversation after a bank has said no. It is CDFI-certified.

BEST FORA personal loan, or building a credit file from nothing, and buying, repairing or refinancing a home.
CREDIT UNIONCDFI-certifiedRivermark Community Credit Union

Based in Oregon City, Oregon. A member-owned credit union, which means the people deciding on your file answer to depositors in the same towns you work in. It is CDFI-certified.

BEST FORBuying, repairing or refinancing a home, and working capital, equipment and payroll for a small business.
CREDIT UNIONEmbold Credit Union

Based in Oregon City, Oregon. A credit union: no shareholders to satisfy, and a habit of reading a whole story rather than a single score.

BEST FORWorking capital, equipment and payroll for a small business, and a personal loan, or building a credit file from nothing.
CREDIT UNIONUkrainian Credit Union

Based in Rochester, New York. A credit union — owned by its members rather than by shareholders, which is exactly what changes the conversation after a bank has said no.

BEST FORA personal loan, or building a credit file from nothing, and buying, repairing or refinancing a home.
RIGHT HEREOregon, and the rules that apply in Clackamas County.
10 DOORS ABOVE

Everything below is set by Oregon, and it reads the same in every county in it. The 10 marks above are this county's own doors — who opens one is decided by them, not by the state.

The rules where you are.

None of this is set by a lender. Oregon sets it, and it applies the same in every county in the state — which is why it is worth knowing before you knock on any of the doors above.

  • PROPERTY TAX0.86% effective

    What Oregon charges every year on what the house is worth. No lender sets it and it does not go away when the loan does — it is part of the payment from day one.

  • MEDIAN HOME, STATEWIDE$503K

    The number an appraisal gets read against. A house well under it is often the loan a big bank does not want — which is exactly what the doors above are for.

  • STATE INCOME TAX4.75% – 9.9%

    It comes off before a lender works out how much of your income can go to a payment.

  • COST OF LIVING114.1

    National index, where 100 is the country's average. Under 100 means your money goes further here than it does nationally.

Sources: Tax Foundation 2025 · Census ACS 5-year 2023 · BEA/MERIC COLI 2024 · Zillow 2026-Q1. As of 2026-04.

THE SHORT VERSION

The short version.

  1. 01

    10 doors sit inside the Clackamas County line. They are up the page, by name and by town — and none of them paid to be there.

  2. 02

    2 of them are certified by the U.S. Treasury as CDFIs. Lending where a bank will not is their mandate, not a favour.

  3. 03

    This page did not ask you for a name, an email, or a number, and nothing on it changes based on who you are.

  4. 04

    32 of Oregon's 36 counties hold a door in this lane. If Clackamas County does not have the one you need, the whole state is one click away.

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