$150 million: A guide to proposed Portland homeless spending next year
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Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury released her proposed budget Thursday for the upcoming fiscal year, with nearly $150 million earmarked to address homelessness – a 22% increase from the year prior.
Between federal COVID-19 relief and a new three-county Metro supportive housing services tax for homelessness programs, the county is seeing “the largest budget that has ever been proposed” with new investments in housing that haven’t been possible before, Kafoury said during Thursday’s commission meeting. About a third of the budget is slated to come from the Metro homelessness relief tax that voters approved nearly a year ago.