Homeless services director warns losing prevention funds would increase shelter demand
Nathaniel Virgo, director of the Homeless Services Department, told city and county elected leaders that state prevention, shelter and rehousing funds set to expire would put roughly 420 households at immediate risk and endanger shelter capacity; he urged preserving those streams and described a legislator tour to show program impacts.
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Nathaniel Virgo, director of Multnomah County’s Homeless Services Department, told the joint session that three primary state funding streams for prevention, shelter and rehousing are scheduled to expire in the next biennium and that loss of those funds would undermine progress toward the region’s homelessness reduction goals.
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