Oregon’s housing agency wasn’t prepared to manage an emergency rental assistance program that spent $426 million during the COVID-19 pandemic and still can’t determine how many Oregonians were helped ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An official audit found Oregon Housing and Community Services doled out an estimated $426 million in emergency rental assistance over the pandemic, but the department failed to ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon is set to roll out a first-in-the-nation, widescale Medicaid waiver to pay for housing. The program allows some eligible people who are on the Oregon Health Plan, which is ...

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon distributed a massive amount of emergency federal funding to aid renters and landlords during the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting unemployment crisis, but a new audit from the ...

Dr. Sejal Hathi visited an affordable housing project for farmworkers in March, 2024, in Lebanon as part of her statewide "listening tour." ...

SALEM — Over two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oregon Housing and Community Services department distributed $426 million in dollars in emergency rent assistance, providing aid to thousands of ...

Oregon Medicaid advisers, alarmed by the turbulent rollout of a new rent assistance benefit, pressed state health officials this week for answers over delays they acknowledged have left thousands of ...

Joe Kline / The Bulletin Michael Page heats up a frozen dinner for himself and his son, Michael Brandon, right, in their room at Motel 6. Many of the Pages' meals have been microwaveable since they ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with Oregon Housing and Community Services, announced Wednesday proposed timelines to begin offering new Medicaid benefits that ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon launched a new program on Friday that connects eligible Oregon Health Plan members with rent assistance and other housing benefits — aiming to help Oregonians with ...

SALEM, Ore. — Tents and sleeping bags on sidewalks and in parks statewide are evidence of a growing homeless crisis, and Oregon lawmakers have vowed to find solutions to this legislative session.