Housing

MACG won $75 million in additional funding for affordable housing units in the City of Portland. At our May 13, 2003 Assembly, Portland City Commissioner Erik Sten announced to over 1,300 delegates that the Council agreed to increase the City’s 10 year production goal by 3,350 units for households at or below 50% of median family income.

Led by Recovery Association Project leaders, MACG congregations and unions in Clackamas County secured $ 1.2 million in 2006 and 2007 for transitional housing. This annual investment will provide a safe and constructive place for people leaving prison and re-entering society.

Jobs

MACG worked in cooperation with the Columbia Pacific Building Trades Council to win support for 800 good jobs in the $1.2 billion South Waterfront Development. By meeting with project developers, City Commissioners and leaders of the Portland Development Commission, MACG and Building Trades Leaders ensured that prevailing wages, benefits and training would be provided to workers on the project. This means millions of additional dollars over the next few years for households in our community as well as insurance and access to training that puts people on a solid career path.

Environment

Leaders from MACG churches and unions worked with Portland City Council in 2005-2006 to create a $200,000 fund and enforcement mechanisms to clean up and restore the 45 properties contaminated by the production of methamphetamines. All 45 contaminated properties originally on the list have now been restored.

Health Care

MACG worked with allies to save Oregon Health Standard Plan in 2003 for 110,000 low-income Oregonians who would not have had health coverage without it.
MACG worked with allies to educate legislators on the benefits of forming the Oregon Prescription Drug Program, which now has over thousands of Oregonians signed up to receive discounted prescription drugs, nearly 500 from MACG member institutions.

MACG led the effort to pass a resolution at Portland City Council in August 2007 that formed a Health Policy Committee to find a way to require the provision of health insurance coverage to the more than 1,000 construction workers currently laboring on taxpayer funded projects without health insurance.

Leadership

Over 1,000 potential leaders from labor unions, congregations and community organizations have participated in our 12-hour Leadership Training for Public Life.
We are making a strong contribution to restoring democracy in Metropolitan Portland by consistently bringing together leaders from Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties in non-partisan assemblies ranging from 250 – 1,300 people.