Report is HERE. Some tidbits, including Portland:
- The increase in the number of requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 24 percent. Portland's increase was 2%.
- There was an overall increase of 9% in the total number of families experiencing homelessness; Portland's increase was 31%.
- ...In late 2009, HUD provided $4.2 million in Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program funds... In the first full year of program funding, housing service providers throughout Multnomah County used federal stimulus-funded rent and utility assistance to help more than 2,800 people in more than 1,000 households avoid homelessness or move rapidly from homelessness back into housing.Though HUD requires that the funds be used within three years, Portland housing officials have spent more than half of the funds in only one year due to unprecedented demand for this type of assistance. To date, area providers have delivered more than $2.2 million in direct assistance, an average of approximately $2,100 per household. With remaining funds, housing officials expect to assist as many as 1,000 additional households. More than three-quarters of the households assisted were currently housed, but were at imminent risk of becoming homeless, most due to the current economic
recession
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