First Count of 3 County Portland Metro Long Range Rental Assistance Units: 1,145 Units with 85% Tenant Based.

Using multiple data sources I was able to develop the first 3 county Portland metro count of Supportive Housing Regional Long Range Rental Assistance (RLRA).

I have pasted below a table that shows a breakout of RLRA by county and assistance type. 

That count shows:

• A total of 1,145 units, with 85% of those units in tenant based assistance. 
• A subtotal of 169 project based RLRA units, in 11 projects. 
• 10 of those projects are in Multnomah County, 1 in Clackamas and none in Washington county. 
• The Clackamas county projected should now be at the construction start stage but occupancy is not scheduled until 2024, so a "units currently available" would be 1,105 (and this assumes all Multnomah county project based units are currently available). 

IF all 1,145 units were made available to the chronic homeless as counted in the 2022 PIT survey, the 3 county chronic homeless count would be reduced by 31% from 3,674 to  2,529. 

Context: RLRA vs Other permanent homeless programs

For context, as of August the three Oregon Portland Metro housing authorities had leased a total of 337 emergency HUD homeless rental vouchers, and 968 HUD VASH homeless veteran vouchers. While these 1,305 units are more than the 1,145 RLRA lease ups, the 1,305 units  were leased over  a longer time. Note that the HUD funded homeless vouchers should also have reduced the chronic homeless counted in the 2022 PIT significantly. 

Costs, Including Service Costs?

I don’t have good regional information about per unit cost for RLRA; I anticipate that this may become available when annual reports are filed at the end of the month.

Demographics?

Also missing, hoping that annual reports will have that detail including race and ethnicity and category A and B status. 

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.