Missed the Housing Forum? Watch the replay!
On March 8th, CPAH held our first Housing Forum: Creating Solutions to Homelessness – What Will it Take? and over 200 guests attended. We are grateful to all our partners and sponsors who helped make this event possible. A big thank you to Broadway Rose Theatre who donated the space and helped us manage the evening. Another big thank you is owed to Here Together who partnered with us on the forum, helping to promote the event and manage the Q & A session.
A massive round of applause for the panel:
And wonderful panel moderator
During the event, we discussed the kind of community our region wants to create, the achievements we have made thus far with support of voters, and the work that remains to make a difference.
There are also a lot of reasons to believe that we can do it.
Highlights from the Discussion:
Israel Bayer
Mayor Lacey Beaty
Patricia Rojas
Dr. Marisa Zapata
Michael Liu
Community Partners for Affordable Housing held this forum and is engaged in this work because together we know that we can create solutions, we can change lives. To get there, CPAH will continue to create affordable housing that will last and that is connected to valuable service partners who can assist us in stabilizing our communities and supporting our residents. We can’t do this work alone. We also see that we need to do more. So, we will continue to find ways to specifically house people who have been without places to live – this includes the work we have been doing at The Joyce – a bond funded project that will provide 66 units of Supportive Housing in downtown Portland, very close lease up, as well as setting aside apartments for permanent supportive housing in our wider portfolio.
And even then, as we all can see, there is so much unmet need. Building housing takes a long time for so many reasons. This is why CPAH has also begun contracting with Washington County to provide homeless services, assisting at the Aloha Inn, another permanent supportive housing community, as well as working with people who are houseless and helping them move into market-rate housing while supporting them as they live their new lives. Our hope is that over time, this work will become less urgent. And as CPAH is a part of this community long term, we are looking to be part of the long-term solutions, focused on housing, because we know what will absolutely end someone’s homelessness, a place to live.
Rachael Duke
Executive Director Community Partners for Affordable Housing
