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Portland Housing Bureau proposes home-sharing pilot amid small cuts and restored eviction defense funding
Summary
PHB Director Helmi Hisrick told the committee the mayor’s budget reduces some program funding but adds $500,000 for a home-sharing pilot; an earlier proposed cut to eviction legal defense was restored in the mayor’s proposal.
The Portland Housing Bureau briefed the Homelessness and Housing Committee May 13 on changes in the mayor’s proposed budget, including a new home-sharing pilot and a smaller overall cut than originally proposed.
Helmi Hisrick, director of the Portland Housing Bureau, said the mayor’s revised budget reduces general fund support to PHB by $800,000 (smaller than an earlier $1.2 million cut the bureau had proposed) and that a previously proposed $400,000 cut to the eviction legal defense program was restored in the mayor’s proposal.
Hisrick outlined specific program changes: a $400,000 one-time reduction to first-time homebuyer assistance that would reduce down-payment assistance…
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