"We Call This Home: Race, Wealth, and Home Ownership," focused our region on one of the toughest challenges facing our city: How do we ensure that the decisions we make as a growing city reflect both the wisdom we've gained through our shared history of inequality, and also the visions we share for a safe, abundant, and affordable place for all to live?

Our 2015 focus was the growing share of low wage workers who could not earn enough to support themselves without a strong public safety net. In partnership with Northwest Health Foundation, we provided the data, policy analysis, and community conversation needed to develop innovative policy that responds to the realities of Oregon's economy – including costs of living, median income, and regional labor markets.

(2016 Project) In partnership with Northwest Health Foundation and Sightline Institute, we convened groups that represent and serve communities of color, low-wealth communities, and other traditionally disenfranchised communities in late March 2016 to discuss and learn about the kinds of open democracy reforms that would do the most to increase civic participation and open doors to civic and electoral leadership in Portland.