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Residents and recovery housing providers urge county to fund Commissioner Moyer’s recovery housing voucher pilot
Summary
Multiple people with lived experience and recovery housing providers told the board public comment that transitional recovery housing is critical and asked the board to fund Commissioner Moyer’s proposed $1.8 million voucher pilot to expand family-focused recovery housing.
Several speakers with lived experience and recovery-housing providers urged Multnomah County to support Commissioner Moyer’s proposed recovery housing voucher pilot, which would provide targeted transitional housing slots for people exiting treatment.
Lance Orton, executive director of City Team Portland, said the missing link in recovery systems is transitional housing that offers accountability and peer support. "Commissioner Moyer's proposal does exactly that," Orton told the board, describing recovery housing as an efficient model that bridges treatment and permanent housing.
Multiple other residents and providers — including people who credited recovery housing programs with changing their lives — described how access to a recovery housing bed directly supported treatment completion, job entry and family reunification. Providers such as Transcending Hope noted program capacity limits and waitlists and described serving hundreds of clients across the tri-county area.
The comments were submitted during the public-comment period and were not a formal board action, but they frame community expectations as the county considers funding priorities during budget decisions.
