Our Partnerships
Explore the different coalitions and partnerships that give us our name.
Oregon IDA Initiative
Oregon Housing Alliance
Residents Organizing for Change
Oregon Economic Justice Roundtable
Latest Posts
QUIZ: What’s your ideal summer, Oregon? (Question 5 may surprise you)
We all daydream in the summer time. Take a second out of your day to find out what your ideal summer says about you. If your ideal summer includes more Oregonians having enough money for rent, share this post with the hashtag: #idealsummerOregon.
You’ll never see ‘No, Section 8’ again
Imagine you’re looking though the apartment ads in the local paper. You find the perfect place. It’s near your kid’s school, fits within your tight budgetary restrictions and is available right now. In this rental market you know you’ll have to get there early to meet the landlord and compete with a half-dozen other people […]
Despite how it feels, talking about poverty is getting easier
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll shows promising results for those conversations you might be having about poverty. “Now, nearly half of respondents, 47 percent, attribute poverty to factors other than individual initiative,” says the poll. Although opinions still fall along expect political divides we’ve come a long way since 1995. As Topos put in […]
The world’s leading marketing guru shares a valuable lesson on homelessness
I was reading a summary of Seth Godin‘s 2014 HOW conference interview and he shared an anecdote that stood out to me: If you read Patti Smith’s book about her and Robert [Mapplethorpe] called Just Kids … she was homeless for years — HOMELESS! — living on bread from the garbage can, sleeping in the […]