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. Download the Oregon Rehousing Initiative program manual. 

Housing 360 pilot

OHCS has launched its Housing 360 pilot program, awarding $3.4 million from the Oregon Rehousing Initiative to four organizations across the state 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.

Housing 360 grantees

Mid-Columbia Community Action Council (MCCAC): MCCAC will use case coordination intervention to deepen and formalize cross-agency collaboration. The pilot is estimated to initially serve 40 households with housing and behavioral health supports.

Benton County: Benton County will use a Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool (FHSP) as a centralized hub to administer the funding of their pilot, while taking a pretreatment model approach. The pilot estimates to initially serve a minimum of 15 households through coordination of pretreatment services to secure housing and behavioral health supports. 

Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency: MWVCAA's pilot will prioritize those experiencing unsheltered homelessness and people exiting institutional or carceral facilities who were homeless before entering the institution. The pilot will take a shelter-based approach, where individuals will receive intensive case management, medical and mental health care, and housing navigation. The pilot is estimated to initially serve a minimum of 32 households with housing and/or behavioral health services.

Washington County: Washington County's Homeless Services Division will coordinate with partners to provide housing services, clinical behavioral health services, and permanent housing subsidies for individuals with a history of chronic homelessness. The pilot estimates to initially serve a minimum of 75 households with rehousing supports and/or behavioral health services. 

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.