Quality Rental Housing Work Group and Urban Renewal Funds (2007)

∞ In 2007 CAT won commitment from the City of Portland to create a Quality Rental Housing Work Group to address “the issue of environmental health and substandard housing conditions that threaten the health and safety of low-income tenants and develop corresponding policy and program recommendations.”

∞ In 2007 CAT and our partners in Affordable Housing NOW! (AHN!) won a 30% set-aside of urban renewal funds for affordable housing. By 2011, this resulted in over $153 million in spending for affordable housing, and targeted up to half of the spending to housing extremely low-income people (individuals that earn less than $14,600 and families that earn less than $20,800).