Who We Are

We are a collection of leaders from faith and community-based institutions in Clackamas County. We gather together around the practices of community organizing to leverage our land and our resources for the purposes of the housing needs of our neighbors. 

We are rooted in the work of being anti-racist, of acknowledging that the land we are leveraging was first stolen from our indigenous siblings. We are working on understanding that fast and speedy work is never equitable work. We go slow to go far. We go slow to be equitable. We go slow to build a new way of building community. We work together so that all Oregonians might come home.

How We Work

We are nested within
A broader house
 .... A Sacred Organizing House that brings together teams of people of faith & courageous love committed to building a multifaith, multiracial, multigenerational movement for justice in Oregon. By working together, we believe we can move toward a horizon of liberation, including racial equity, housing justice, climate resilience, and youth leadership. 
In this house,  there are several rooms:  Reckoning with Racism, Climate Resilience, The Youth Room, and Land and Housing. 
While we organize with folks across the house, our local organizers and core teams in Clackamas County work within the Land and Housing room --- which exists within an even larger web called the Leaven Land and Housing Coalition whose work stretches across the PNW --- linking the work and stories unfolding across  Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington County.

We are made up of:
​Core Teams

A core team is a team of people from a faith community (or neighborhood/community organization) who listen to the needs of their neighborhood to discern how they can leverage their resources for the good of the community.
Local Core Teams:
  • Oak Grove United Methodist 
  • King of King's Lutheran Church
  • ​St. Paul United Methodist
  • Creator Lutheran 

We are led by : 
Land and Housing Organizers

This is a team of organizers who support the core teams within their county. This team:
  • Provides leadership and learning for cohort gatherings
  • Walks alongside each core team as they discern the movement of their neighborhood
  • Supports the cohort in shared action

We work alongside: 
Co-Conspirators

Our co-conspirators are professionals from local direct service or community organizations whose expertise and position in the housing development world lends power to our process.

Together we operate like a team of: 
forest foragers

Core Team Resources

Resources for Land Genealogy Work: