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Portland, Multnomah County present refreshed homelessness action plan with five goal areas
Summary
Portland and Multnomah County officials presented an updated Homelessness Response Action Plan that reorganizes prior goals into five focus areas and adds new action items including a PSH retention pilot and "case conferencing lite." Staff said the document is a guide for FY27 budget decisions; numeric KPI goals will be set after budgets are finalized.
Council and county leaders on Nov. 13 reviewed an updated Homelessness Response Action Plan (HRAP) that condenses the prior nine goal areas into five: inflow (eviction prevention), safety on and off the streets (shelter and outreach), outflow (permanent housing placement), care coordination and cross‑sector collaboration, and data and evaluation.
"Together, we are housing and sheltering more of our neighbors than ever before," Multnomah County Chair Vega Peterson said in opening remarks, noting that "on average, a thousand people are exiting homelessness each month," while inflow still outpaces outflow. The updated action plan, staff said, is intended to guide policy and…
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