Rural development & opportunity zones
Deal structuring, GP functions, and capital stacks for opportunity-zone projects in distressed rural markets.
Practical policy for small places
Helping rural communities compete.
Catalyst Public Policy Advisors builds capital portfolios, sharpens municipal finance, and develops housing and workforce strategies for Oregon's small cities and rural counties — so they win their share of state and federal investment.
What we do
Four practice areas. One bar: bring home the wins.
Municipal finance
Budget analysis, financial reporting, and policy strategy for cities, counties, and special districts navigating tight margins.
Housing & land-use
Portable housing catalogs, UGB and infrastructure strategy, and workforce-housing development for rural Oregon.
Healthcare & workforce education
Curriculum design and training modules — including the 4Ms geriatric-nursing framework — for rural health systems.
Research & tools
Built for rural Oregon.
Research series, interactive tools, and catalogs we've developed and maintain for clients, partners, and the public.
Oregon Rural Viability Series
A multi-sector, longitudinal analysis of institutional carrying capacity in Oregon's rural communities — measuring which places are approaching the thresholds beyond which decline becomes self-reinforcing. Education module available now.
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Health Care
Employment
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Oregon Socioeconomic Risk Tool
An interactive dashboard mapping community-level vulnerability across every Oregon census tract — combining CDC SVI, Census, and ACS data to show where external stresses on human health will hit hardest.
Open the toolRural Oregon Housing — R3 Home Plans
A market-neutral catalog of 21 portable home plans for any Oregon community under 50,000 residents — including stick-frame, SIPS, and factory-built modular typologies from WDI, HONE, and BDA.
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Have a complex problem in a small place?
We work with rural local governments, hospital and school districts, tribal governments, and mission-aligned developers. If that's you, let's talk.