HUD Awards Over $46 Million to Help People Experiencing Homelessness in Oregon

SEATTLE – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced over $2.6 billion in 2021 Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition Awards for roughly 7,000 local homeless housing and service programs across the United States, including $46,017,563 to 132 projects in Oregon. The awards, announced by Secretary Marcia L. Fudge in Houston, Texas, will provide funding to communities to help individuals and families experiencing homelessness move into permanent housing with access to supportive services, with the overarching goal of long-term stability.

“HUD is proud to support our partners in the Northwest who are making an impact to end homelessness in our communities,” said HUD Regional Administrator Margaret Solle Salazar. “These resources will open the doors to long-term housing stability for thousands of families in our region and will help build an equitable recovery from this time of crisis.”

The CoC program is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness. The program is the largest source of federal grant funding for homeless services and housing programs servicing people experiencing homelessness. The 2021 awards include approximately $102 million for new domestic violence support projects. The awards also fund new projects that focus on adding permanent housing to communities including new permanent supportive housing, new rapid rehousing, and projects that provide transitional housing to households and then shift them to rapid rehousing.

The funding will be used to address these areas:

End homelessness for all persons experiencing homelessness;
Use a Housing First approach;
Reduce unsheltered homelessness and reduce the criminalization of homelessness;
Improve system performance;
Partner with housing and health agencies, including to leverage and coordinate American Rescue Plan resources;
Advance racial equity and addressing racial disparities in homelessness; and
Engage people with lived experience of homelessness in decision-making.

Multnomah County Awards (Total $28,599,693)

19th Ave Apartments - $400,410
A Home for Everyone Coordinated Access - $68,898
Alcohol and Drug Free Housing - $163,661
Andrea Lee/Healing Roots Consolidation - $366,812
Clifford Apartments - $259,504
Collaboration - $469,115
Domestic Violence Coordinated Access Coordinator - $78,000
Domestic Violence Supportive Housing Combined - $1,339,393
Family Futures - $1,482,297
HMIS - $245,666
HOPE - $2,808,665
Horizons - $218,161
Horizons Homesafe Consolidation - $793,004
Housing Integration for Healthier Outcomes - $536,219
IRCO Housing Services for Survivors FY 2021 - $382,323
Madrona Studios - $338,125
Moving to Permanent Housing - $454,866
NowHOME - $317,452
Old Town Collaborative Homeless Housing Program - $527,649
OR-501 CoC Planning Application FY2021 - $816,159
OTIS Project - $463,698
Pathways Rent Assistance - $229,755
Project HAVEN Permanent Supportive Housing - $1,184,621
Project HAVEN: Rapid Rehousing - $2,025,524
Rapid Rehousing Bonus - $92,336
Rapid Re-Housing Initiative - $572,480
Roads to Housing - $131,147
Royal Palm 2 PSH Consolidated - $1,326,391
Safe Home - $174,439
Safe Home Partnership - $589,561
SPC Home Forward Amalgamate - $7,037,001
Special Needs Services - $127,974
Spectrum Housing Relief: PSH - $296,488
Sunrise Place - $106,767
The Women's Housing Collaborative Consolidation - $674,363
Winter Housing: Targeted Permanent Supportive Housing for Women's Shelter Residents - $373,995
Women's Housing Program - $343,214
YWCA Transitional and Rapid Re-Housing Program - $783,560