Josephine County commissioner candidate Chad Hansen’s extensive involvement in affordable housing now intersects with substantial public investment, municipal land-use proceedings, county development activity and a newly formed contracting company involving Hansen and his son, Austin Hansen. The expanding record connects Home Bridging GP, taxpayer-financed infrastructure, county housing programs, property development and private business interests at the same time Hansen is seeking a seat on the Josephine County Board of Commissioners.
Hansen founded Home Bridging GP and has represented the nonprofit before local governments as it pursued housing developments and participated in publicly financed programs. His government relationships have included substantial infrastructure grants, county development activity and a previous federal conflict-of-interest review involving his service on the Josephine County Budget Committee. More recently, Hansen and his son filed a new company, Rogue Pacific Contracting LLC.
Questions surrounding those relationships intensified during a Grants Pass Planning Commission proceeding involving a Home Bridging development. Hansen explained that public money was being used for infrastructure while private donations would finance construction of the houses. He also said Home Bridging deliberately avoided federal funding for construction because the organization did not want the additional government requirements accompanying those dollars.
The discussion then turned to the people who would eventually receive the homes.
“We want to control who we want to help. We want to provide the houses that we want to provide them to,” Hansen stated during the proceeding.
He later added, “not discriminatory-wise.”
Public financing has already contributed to Home Bridging developments even when government money did not directly pay for construction of the individual houses.
The Grants Pass City Council awarded Home Bridging GP Inc. an American Rescue Plan Act Public Infrastructure Affordable Housing Grant of up to $747,500 in June 2024 for property at 1907 Fruitdale Drive. During the same meeting cycle, the Grants Pass Urban Renewal Agency awarded Home Bridging a separate grant of up to $749,000 for property at 235 NW Scenic Drive. The city simultaneously rescinded an earlier ARPA award of up to $800,000 associated with the Scenic Drive property after the financing arrangement for that development changed.
Home Bridging’s use of publicly financed housing infrastructure predates those awards.
Grants Pass planning documents for the 2022 program year allocated Community Development Block Grant money toward public infrastructure for 22 affordable, low-income single-family houses associated with Home Bridging and Habitat for Humanity at 2612 Redwood Avenue. Subsequent city planning records reported that Home Bridging installed public improvements for a low-income housing subdivision using CDBG funds and continued participating in local affordable-housing programs.
Hansen’s description of privately financed home construction therefore represents only one portion of the development costs. Roads, water and sewer connections, utilities and other infrastructure are necessary components of residential development, and government grants covering those expenses reduce costs that otherwise must be financed as part of preparing property for construction.
How Home Bridging ultimately selects the purchasers of those homes remains an important unanswered part of the process.
Will the homes be publicly available to everyone satisfying established qualifications? What income limits, residency requirements, financial standards or other eligibility criteria will apply? Will prospective homeowners be evaluated under written standards? If qualified applicants outnumber available houses, who determines which applicants receive them? Will selection occur through scoring, a waiting list, lottery, organizational review or another process?
The grant agreements themselves carry equal importance because they establish what Home Bridging accepted in exchange for public assistance. Those agreements can identify affordability provisions, reporting requirements, construction deadlines, eligible expenditures, monitoring requirements, property restrictions and any obligations surviving the completion of construction.
The timing also deserves examination through those records. Public funding awarded in 2024 is connected to development activity continuing in 2026. City records can establish what deadlines accompanied those awards, what progress reports were submitted, whether schedules were modified and what oversight occurred while the projects advanced.
Hansen’s relationship with Josephine County extends well beyond his appearances before Grants Pass planning officials.
In February 2024, the Josephine County Board of Commissioners authorized Home Bridging GP, through Hansen, to act as the county’s agent in land-use and development matters involving county property at Burgundy Lane in Cave Junction. The authorization covered rezoning and subdividing property for 37 single-family residential lots.
Home Bridging subsequently participated in another county-administered housing program. Business Oregon announced a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant for Josephine County in 2025 to continue a home repair and rehabilitation program administered collaboratively with Home Bridging GP. The program serves qualifying homeowners in unincorporated Josephine County, Cave Junction and portions of the Grants Pass urban growth boundary outside the incorporated city.
That arrangement later required Josephine County to address Hansen’s previous service on the county Budget Committee.
County legal counsel determined that Hansen’s prior Budget Committee position, combined with his continuing relationship with Home Bridging, created an apparent conflict under federal regulations governing the Community Development Block Grant program. Josephine County subsequently pursued an exception through Business Oregon allowing its relationship with Home Bridging to continue. County officials said during the proceeding that Home Bridging had been selected through a procurement process and had successfully administered the program.
Hansen is now campaigning for one of three positions exercising executive and legislative authority over Josephine County government. Commissioners approve contracts, control county budgets, manage county property and participate in decisions involving grants, land use and economic development.
His public description of himself as a full-time volunteer adds another dimension to that record.
Hansen has told voters that he is a full-time volunteer and has made similar representations while appearing before local government. During a 2024 Grants Pass planning proceeding, Hansen said Home Bridging had no paid staff at that time, described the organization as entirely volunteer and said he performed his work without profit.
Federal nonprofit filings report no compensation to Hansen as president of Home Bridging. The organization’s 2024 Form 990 reported $857,355 in revenue while listing zero compensation for Hansen. Its subsequent 2025 filing again reported zero compensation for Hansen while Home Bridging recorded approximately $1.17 million in revenue and $1.23 million in expenses. The newer filing also reported $155,058 in salaries and wages elsewhere within the organization.
Those filings document what Home Bridging reports paying Hansen. They do not identify Hansen’s personal income from outside sources, private businesses, investments, property transactions or other financial interests.
That missing portion of the financial picture has become more pertinent with the formation of Rogue Pacific Contracting LLC.
Chad Hansen and his son, Austin Hansen, recently filed the new contracting company while Hansen continues his Home Bridging activities and campaigns for county commissioner. The filing places another private business into a network of activity already encompassing nonprofit housing, residential development, government grants and publicly financed infrastructure.
For a candidate who describes his principal housing work as full-time volunteer service, the volume of activity raises straightforward financial questions. How does Hansen support himself while performing what he describes as full-time unpaid work? What business interests provide his income? What work will Rogue Pacific Contracting perform? Will the company work on Home Bridging developments? Will it seek contracts involving developments receiving public assistance? Will Hansen or businesses involving his family receive compensation from construction or development connected to Home Bridging projects?
A Form 990 reporting zero compensation to Hansen answers only what Home Bridging reports paying its president. It does not identify contractors paid on individual projects, companies performing construction or professional services, ownership interests in those companies, income generated through property transactions or financial activity occurring outside the nonprofit.
Contracts, corporate filings, deeds, grant expenditure records and candidate financial disclosures can provide those answers.
Austin Hansen’s participation in the new company also intersects with previous property transactions associated with Home Bridging.
Earlier examinations of public property records identified property moving from Home Bridging to Austin Hansen and subsequently into another limited liability company before later residential sales. Those records place family ownership and private corporate entities within the history of property originating from Home Bridging activity and make the financial terms of those transactions relevant to understanding how the nonprofit’s housing model operates after development.
Home Bridging itself has expanded substantially. Its reported revenue increased from $857,355 in 2024 to approximately $1.17 million in 2025. During that period, Hansen continued to report no compensation from the organization while Home Bridging pursued housing development and participated in programs involving municipal, county, state and federal resources.
The Planning Commission proceeding introduced another issue involving the Home Bridging development when commissioners considered recommendations from the Fire Marshal. Several commissioners indicated they were unwilling to disregard professional fire-safety recommendations concerning the project.
The same municipal proceeding produced Hansen’s statement concerning Home Bridging’s desire to control whom it helps.
That statement makes the eventual homebuyer-selection process particularly significant because taxpayers have already financed infrastructure associated with Home Bridging developments. Written eligibility requirements can establish who qualifies. Application procedures can establish who receives an opportunity to participate. Selection standards can establish how competing qualified applicants are treated. Grant agreements can establish what continuing affordability or public-benefit requirements remain after the homes enter private ownership.
Rogue Pacific Contracting introduces a separate but related question.
If the company performs work for Home Bridging, corporate and contracting records can document that relationship. If it participates in publicly supported developments, expenditure records can identify the work and compensation involved. If it remains entirely separate from Home Bridging, the business records can establish that separation.
Those details carry greater weight because Hansen is no longer operating solely as the president of a housing nonprofit. He is asking Josephine County voters to place him in an office with direct authority over public money, county contracts, government property, grants and development decisions.
The public record now places Hansen in several overlapping roles: founder and president of Home Bridging GP, representative of developments receiving publicly financed infrastructure, former Josephine County Budget Committee member, representative authorized to act for the county in a land-use matter, participant in a federal conflict-of-interest review, principal associated with a newly formed contracting company and candidate for the Josephine County Board of Commissioners.
For voters, the financial relationships connecting those roles remain incompletely defined.
Where does Hansen’s personal income originate while he describes himself as a full-time volunteer? What financial interests does he maintain in development and contracting? What role will Rogue Pacific Contracting play? Will that company conduct business with Home Bridging? How are purchasers selected for homes supported by taxpayer-financed infrastructure? What happens to the public investment after those properties enter private ownership? How would Hansen separate his nonprofit and private business interests from county decisions if elected?
Those questions can be answered through public records and direct disclosure.
Hansen has placed his record before Josephine County voters while seeking one of the county’s most powerful elected positions. His extensive housing activity, Home Bridging’s reliance on substantial public investment, the organization’s homebuyer-selection process, his full-time volunteer declaration and the formation of Rogue Pacific Contracting are now pieces of the same public record.
The remaining question is how those pieces fit together financially and how they would remain separated from the authority Hansen is asking voters to give him.