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Healthy Housing Initiative

“We are called to shelter the homeless and provide comfort and care to the afflicted with comfort we ourselves receive from God.”

2 Corinthians 1:4

Welcome Home

No matter what struggles we face in our lives, having a place to call home makes us whole. It is where we find warmth, safety, and calm regardless of what storm may be brewing outside.

Home is at the core of our humanity. It’s where we lay roots for ourselves and our families so we may begin and end each day together.

With a roof over our heads, life’s path forward is paved with greater hope and possibility. A home gives us freedom to heal, improve our health, pursue opportunities, and find belonging in a community.

Together, as neighbors in this great state, we must answer the call for those in need. For the love and support we give our fellow brothers and sisters is the light that connects us all.

 

Articles

Intimate Partner Violence: Standing with survivors

Posted By | Catholic Charities Communications
Like many IPV survivors, Cathy was without a home for several years to escape her abuser. Although she avoided living on the streets, Cathy experienced several years of instability, relying on couch-surfing and sleeping in her car.

Longtime parish minister dies

Posted By | Catholic Charities Communications
Vicki Ford was a stalwart Catholic Charities volunteer and supporter Vicki Ford, a philanthropist who was a lay minister at the same Catholic parish longer than anyone else in Oregon history, died unexpectedly at home Sept. 29.

A new home off the streets – with services

Posted By | Catholic Charities Communications
Catholic Charities opens affordable housing with services in Southeast Portland  In one of Portland’s most direct actions to help people leave homelessness to date, Catholic Charities of Oregon with its public and private partners opened a 61-unit apartment building in the Buckman neighborhood on Sept. 26.  

They have made it home

Posted By | Catholic Charities Communications
Good Shepherd Village, the Catholic Charities affordable housing community in Happy Valley, is up and running smoothly. The building is what most people see – colorful, graceful, welcoming. But the real stories are inside. We spoke with six new residents of the village and asked them about their lives and their sense of what makes…