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State officials outline proposal for a statewide shelter system and related budget request
Summary
OHCS and the governor’s office described House Bill 3644 as the policy foundation for a statewide shelter program that pairs shelter funding with rehousing and eviction prevention; presenters emphasized regional coordination, outcomes-based plans, and maintaining existing shelter capacity while routing funding through regional coordinators.
State officials told the Senate Housing and Development Committee on April 28 that House Bill 3644 would establish a statewide shelter system to sustain and coordinate shelter capacity, rehousing and eviction‑prevention services and to provide predictable funding and accountability for outcomes.
Matthew Schawbold, Governor Kotek’s Housing and Homelessness Initiative Director, and Liz Weber, Director of the Housing Stabilization Division at Oregon Housing and Community Services, described the proposal as the policy backbone for a shelter system built on lessons from the governor’s emergency homelessness response. Weber told the committee that “the state now has 4,800 shelter beds that receive some portion of state funding. 3,300 households have been rehoused, and 24,000 households have received support that prevented them from experiencing homelessness.”
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