Kerri Burnside

Future Homebuyers Organization is proud to welcome Ray Colliver to our Board of Directors. Ray brings more than three decades of construction and project‑management leadership to our mission of expanding access to affordable homeownership in Whatcom County. Ray’s career spans major commercial, cultural, and community projects across the Pacific Northwest. As founder of Colliver Construction Management and a longtime Bellingham resident, he has overseen complex builds from early design...

The latest Cascadia Daily News article lays out numbers that are hard to ignore: with median home prices reaching $750,000, homeownership in Bellingham has slipped out of reach for far too many families. The data is staggering, but the story isn’t just about what’s broken. It’s also about what we can build. Future Homebuyers Organization was created in direct response to this moment. For years, the traditional pathways into homeownership have failed first‑generation buyers, low‑income...