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OHCS Details 'Intensive Permanent Supportive Housing' Under Executive Order 26-01; No New Funding Requested
Summary
Oregon Housing and Community Services briefed the subcommittee on Executive Order 26-01 and plans to use existing capital, rental assistance and leveraged OHA Medicaid billing to fund an intensive permanent supportive housing model that adds 24/7 services and on-site clinical support without a request for new legislative dollars.
Oregon Housing and Community Services on Feb. 19 briefed the Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on Executive Order 26-01 and outlined an "intensive permanent supportive housing" (IPSH) approach that builds on existing permanent supportive housing by adding deeper, on-site behavioral-health and tenant-support services.
Andrea Bell, OHCS executive director, said the executive order (signed in 2025) extends emergency-response authorities through January 2027 and directs OHCS and the Oregon Health Authority to partner to develop a housing-and-behavioral-health model for people with high, complex needs. "These are not our resources that we are stewarding. They are the people's resources," Bell said, stressing accountability and oversight as the…
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