Oregon Rehousing Initiative

OHCS received $39 million through SB 5701 to create a statewide rehousing program. This initiative quickly moves households from homelessness to permanent, stable, and safe housing. The program encourages grantees to customize the intervention for each household's specific needs. This allows households personalized financial and support resources, ensuring stability in new housing.

Some participants may need only a small amount of help to stabilize, while others may need more extensive and personalized help.

The Oregon Rehousing Initiative provides help with:

• Up to 24 months of rental assistance per household (must be rehoused by June 30, 2025).
• Supportive services, including employment support services, behavioral health services, and childcare services.
• Other programmatic costs connected to rehousing.

Grantees must use these funds by June 30, 2027. Read more on the Oregon Rehousing Initiative

Housing 360 pilot

OHCS has launched its Housing 360 pilot program, which aims to:

• Improve housing and behavioral health outcomes for individuals with a behavioral health diagnosis who are living unsheltered or otherwise homeless.
• Reduce racial disparities in these housing and behavioral health outcomes.

Partners across the state have reported a shortage of behavioral health resources and needing ways to work together across these systems and combine funding and tools to improve how they help people who are homeless.

To address this gap, $3.4 million from the Oregon Rehousing Initiative will be used for regional pilot initiatives. This competitive application process is open to MAC Groups, Local Planning Groups in rural Oregon, and subgrantees of HB 5019 or Oregon Rehousing Initiative rehousing programs.

OHCS estimates up to four pilot projects will be funded. Applications are currently being reviewed. For questions regarding the program or eligibility to apply for funds, email EO2302.questions@HCS.oregon.gov..

Oregon Rehousing Initiative (ORI) funding allocations

This funding was awarded to Multi Agency Coordination (MAC) groups and Local Planning Groups that were established during Oregon’s Emergency Homelessness Response. In addition, ORI also included a 25% set-aside for direct awards to culturally responsive organizations.

Through a community regional planning process, grantees determined the number of households their region will rehouse through the Oregon Rehousing Initiative. Grantees have a collective goal of rehousing over 1,100 households by June 30, 2025.