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Metro SHS report: Clackamas exceeds many housing goals but warns of revenue shortfalls
Summary
Metro’s Supportive Housing Services oversight committee told Clackamas County commissioners the region met most placement and retention goals in FY2025, but revenue declines require drawing down carryover and revisiting investment priorities and governance.
Metro and the Supportive Housing Services (SHS) oversight committee presented the FY2025 regional report to the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners on March 12, highlighting system stabilization and continuing financial pressure.
Yina Delgado, division director for SHS at Metro, and oversight committee members reported that the region partnered with 107 service providers (including 16 culturally specific organizations) and that counties collectively spent $425 million in year four. Clackamas County received $63.9 million in current-year net SHS revenue and spent approximately $73.5 million in FY2025, drawing on prior-year carryover reserves. Presenters said the system met combined regional goals for permanent supportive housing placements, rapid rehousing, housing retention and shelter capacity but reached only about 73% of the target for bringing new supportive housing units and vouchers online—an intentional slowdown in response to projected lower revenue.
Oversight committee co-chair Dr. Mandrel Tra Taylor and member Kyle Lang said Clackamas achieved strong local outcomes (877 people engaged in outreach, exceeding a target of 750) but faces a structural challenge: for every 10 people who exit homelessness into permanent housing, roughly 30 enter the system. The committee recommended strengthening oversight authority, grounding decisions in data and lived experience, revisiting investment priorities, and improving public messaging to narrow the perception gap between measurable program successes and visible homelessness.
Commissioners asked about the regional investment fund (RIFF), allocation formulas and whether county-level approaches such as Clackamas’s CHAW coordinated-housing-access system would be preserved. Officials said Metro Council was considering reforms to governance (consolidating planning and oversight bodies) and that the region should aim to replicate successful local tools while protecting county-level innovation. The report did not propose immediate changes to Clackamas’s local allocations; Metro staff indicated further work on RIFF language and governance would continue.
