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Appropriations committee advances $82.6 million homelessness‑continuum bill, narrows hotel/motel cap
Summary
The committee approved H938, keeping a total appropriation of $82,634,153 while reallocating dollars toward supportive services (HOP, case management, rental assistance) and reducing the non-winter hotel/motel cap from roughly 1,100 to 700 rooms (effective July 1).
The House Appropriations Committee on March 20 approved H938, the homelessness-continuum appropriation, preserving a total of $82,634,153 while breaking out how the funds will be spent during FY27, which the committee described as a transition year.
Representative Theresa Wood, chair of the House Human Services Committee, told Appropriations the amendment keeps the same overall dollar amount but reallocates the funding to emphasize supportive services, case management and permanent housing strategies rather than continued heavy reliance on hotel and motel emergency housing. "What you have before you is an amendment that ... is the same dollar amount, the same total dollar amounts, $82,634,153," Wood said.
The amendment’s major line items, as described in…
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