Launched "I Support the Portland Safety Net" & "We are Safety Net" Campaigns

∞ In 2012 and 2013, in collaboration with JOIN, StreetRoots, 211info, Oregon Opportunity Network, we successfully launched the “I Support the Portland Safety Net” and “We are Safety Net” campaigns that successfully protected City of Portland housing and homeless services from $1.1 million in cuts. We also converted over $4 million in housing funding, from one-time general funds, to protected, on-going funding.

∞ In 2013, CAT fought to expand housing opportunity for tenants with Section 8 vouchers, by including them as a protected class in the Fair Housing Act. As of 2014, Oregon landlords can no longer say, “I don’t accept Section 8.” We also added protections for tenants with high barriers for housing, by placing limits on how a landlord can screen a rental application. People of color and previously homeless are more likely to have high barriers to housing, and these protections will help to reduce these disparate impacts.