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Portland council committee lays out priorities: shelter openings, housing pipeline and metrics
Summary
At its Feb. 11 Homelessness and Housing Committee meeting, city council members set a work plan focused on accelerating shelter openings, increasing housing supply and establishing shared performance metrics while requesting regular briefings and clearer role definition with county partners.
Portland’s Homelessness and Housing Committee opened Feb. 11 with council members outlining priorities for the new committee, including accelerating shelter openings, speeding housing development and agreeing on a set of measurable outcomes.
The committee chair (committee chair) said the group would focus on “vision and values” and invited members to help define the committee’s scope and leadership expectations. Vice Chair Dunphy emphasized the need for urgency and systems change, saying the committee will need to work with fewer funding tools than in previous years and that East Portland should be centered in the response.
Committee members and staff sketched a short-term work plan and list of regular briefings the committee wants from city bureaus and providers: permitting and pipeline updates from permitting bureaus and the Portland Solutions team; quarterly briefings from shelter staff who work on the…
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