HUD Oregon Housing Voucher Spending by PHA 2017 v 2008: Annual Spending Up 36%/$61 M, Per Voucher Spending Up 25%.

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities published this week detailed HUD voucher use and financial data HERE; I highly recommend. 

I downloaded some of the Oregon data and created a 2 PAGE PDF HERE and embedded below, with three graphs and a table (table is on the second page). 

Contents and Observations:

Graph: Overall Oregon HUD voucher spending went up by as much as 52%.
$233 million in 2017 vs $172 million in 2008, an increase of $61 million (35.8%).
The highest % increase was 52.4% for Home Forward and the lowest % increase was Mid Columbia at 9.4%.

Graph: Oregon Spending per voucher went up by as much as 36%.
Averaged $6,966 in 2017 vs $5,568 in 2008, an average increase of 25.2%.
The highest % increase was in Clackamas county at 36.4%, and the lowest was Jackson at 5.3% . 

From 2008-2017 Clackamas county per voucher costs went up $2,403, and Washington county per voucher cost went up by $2,375. (in 2017 Washington county had the highest per voucher cost at $9,171 and Douglas had the lowest at $3,970). 

Graph: Oregon Vouchers in Use Went Up, But Not Everywhere. 
Statewide the overall increase was 8.5%, with vouchers Increasing by 2,644 to 33,575.
The highest increase was 30.9% in Jackson county and Mid Columbia (-5.3%) West Valley (-6.8% )and Malheur (-6.6%) had fewer vouchers. 

Table: Oregon Detailed data for both 2017 and 2008.
This table the values in the graphs PLUS all of the counts and dollars for each housing authority for both 2008 and 2017, and nationwide and Oregon totals. 

Note 
For Home Forward some of their voucher spending went to other programs they created under their Moving to Work authority. This likely inflates their actual per voucher costs shown here, and understates the number of households benefitting, in some way, from HUD voucher funding. 

Vouchers in use are not the same as (ceiling) voucher allocations. 
Voucher expenditures are shown, not budgets. 



Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.