First Organizing Initiative

∞ In early 2017, CAT launched its first ever on-the-ground organizing initiative with an in-city Senior Organizer in Jackson County, Oregon.

∞ In April of 2017 a policy proposal to lift the ban on rent-stabilization and ban no-cause evictions for all of Oregon passed the Oregon State House of Representatives for the first time in Oregon’s history! CAT helped lead the Stable Homes for Oregon Families Coalition who worked with legislators to develop HB 2004, a landmark bill that would have created a just-cause standard for renters being evicted from their homes, and lifted the preemption on rent-stabilization. Though the bill did not pass in the 2017 session, this was the first time in Oregon’s history that this decades-old policy had been challenged in such a manner with so much progress.