The Purpose of PCH

Portland Collective Housing, inc., is a public benefit corporation for people of low to moderate income which has as its primary purposes:

1. To foster and facilitate housing collectives to alleviate poverty and promote the general welfare.
2. To improve neighborhoods, promote diversity, and reverse community decay while opposing displacement and gentrification.
3. To demonstrate mutual aid and sustainable democratic property stewardship.
4. To teach the skills of economic self-organization alongside the values of ecological wisdom, social justice and economic democracy.