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Councilor reports county backing off shelter beds and low shelter-to-housing transitions; committee seeks more data
Summary
Councilor Zimmerman, Portland’s liaison to the Homelessness Response System’s Steering and Oversight Committee, told the Homelessness and Housing Committee that the county has trimmed about 100 committed shelter beds from its plan and that transitions from shelter to housing were at roughly 20%, far below the HRAP target of 41% by 2025.
Councilor Zimmerman, Portland’s representative to the Homelessness Response System (HRS) Steering and Oversight Committee, updated the Homelessness and Housing Committee on the SOC’s first meeting and upcoming March 11 convening. He said the county has “backed off on some of its about a hundred of its committed shelter beds that were originally in its sheltering plan.”
Zimmerman also read data from the county’s quarterly Homeless Response Action Plan (HRAP) showing the program “goal of transitioning 41% of all exits from shelter into housing by the end of 2025” but that the county is “at about 20%,” a shortfall Zimmerman called “notable.” He asked that the committee monitor which shelter types and locations show stronger…
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