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Metro oversight committee: Supportive Housing Services largely met regional goals while counties face funding and supply pressures
Summary
Metro presenters and the SHS oversight committee told the Multnomah County Board that year‑4 SHS spending rose to about $424.9 million, the region largely met its performance goals but faces constrained future revenue and housing-supply shortfalls; county staff and oversight members urged governance and investment-priority reviews.
Metro and the Tri‑County Supportive Housing Services (SHS) oversight committee presented the fourth annual regional report, saying the measure largely met its regional goals for fiscal year 2025 even as rising demand and lower forecasted revenue create hard choices for the next phase of implementation.
Yesenia Delgado, SHS division director at Metro, said the report covers July 2024 through June 2025 and was prepared alongside the regional oversight committee. Mike Savara, a co‑chair of the oversight committee, summarized the year as “monumental” for building system capacity while also signaling a coming “reckoning” over constrained resources.
Jeremiah Rigsby, chief legal and public affairs officer at CareOregon and an oversight committee member, provided fiscal details: gross SHS tax…
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