Our Mission
Community Partners for Affordable Housing advances housing justice by building sustainable housing, delivering supportive services, and providing people with a place to call home.
Our Vision
We envision inclusive, supportive, and safe communities with abundant housing.
Our Values
We believe that everyone is entitled to respect and deserves compassion and empathy. Our relationships are what make our work both meaningful and impactful.
We are a culturally affirming and responsive organization committed to diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism. We prioritize underserved communities, ensuring that our housing, services, and workplace are accessible and welcoming to all.
We lead with accountability and transparency. We build trust through our choices and actions as we strive for excellence in all we do.
We are committed to sustainability, both in our environment and within our organization. We integrate high standards of care and preservation within our workspaces and buildings, ensuring that each is designed for long term success.
We achieve our greatest impact through collaborative efforts, working in partnership with the people we serve, funders, local government, and other community-based organizations.
Our Story
Community Partners for Affordable Housing (CPAH) is dedicated to building quality affordable housing opportunities with services and programs in Washington County and SW Portland. We have been part of the local response to this growing need for 30 years. CPAH began as a small grass roots organization at St. Anthony’s Church in Tigard, and has since expanded its reach to grow our impact. We now serve all of Washington County from Hillsboro to Beaverton, as well as SW Portland. CPAH’s specialty is that we are committed to this place in particular. Our home is here, and we want everyone to be housed with access to life affirming services so that we all thrive together.
A stable home creates a foundation for life.
When I was 24, I started doing HIV prevention work. I learned right away that if someone didn’t have a place to live, everything else was practically impossible. Housing is a platform– for health, for learning, for family, for connectedness. Somewhere out there are our next true leaders and guides – the next Maya Angelou, the next Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the next Martin Luther King, the next Albert Einstein. Maybe they are in CPAH housing? I want them to have everything they need.
Executive Director
