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23,760 - CA-Portland Solutions Alternative Shelter Services Program Add Package Service Area City Administrator DCA Michael Jordan Bureau Name City Administrator Director Michael Jordan Funding Type Name Non-GF Addition Status: Recommended Package Desc Expense Recommended Total This request is for $41,598,404 to fund the City Alternative Shelter Services Program in Portland External Materials and Services $308,201 Solutions in FY 2025-26. The request consists of $39.8M in operational costs for 8 city shelter sites Internal Materials and Services $1,368,200 (i.e. North Portland Road, Clinton Triangle, BIPOC, Menlo Park, Multnomah, Queer Affinity Village, Reedway, and River District Navigation Center) which serve over 750 units and $1.8M for 9.0 limited $1,676,401 term city staff to support the Shelter Services Program. The request is funded with a mix of one-time resources, specifically $7.4M of remaining and encumbered ARPA resources obligated for Shelter Revenue Recommended Total operations and approximately $30.1M in SHS resources, per the City and Multnomah County’s Homeless Response System Intergovernmental Agreement (June 2024). General Fund Discretionary $0 $0 The City Alternative Shelter Services Program provides low barrier transitional shelter and services, as well as case management, to thousands of individuals each year, many of whom are chronically Expense Recommended Total homeless. This program directly addresses the unsheltered homeless populations by providing them immediate humanitarian service with a focus on eliminating barriers and enabling transitions to External Materials and Services $38,122,003 housing. This ensures that individuals are not being removed, are not blocking the public right of way, are not interacting with first responders, are not the basis of reports and complaints by the Personnel $1,800,000 community, and do not require cleanup services (biohazard removal, sanitation, garbage removal). $39,922,003 Service Impacts Revenue Recommended Total More than 900 individuals on any given night will be served by these services. Several thousand will Intergovernmental $41,598,404 be served in a year by these shelters and by this team, who also coordinate with other jurisdictions and nonprofit providers that serve thousands of homeless Portlanders every year. This is based on $41,598,404 the previous year’s statistics. This team reports all statistics to HMIS and on a dashboard with demographic information and statistics. If funding is not approved all 8 shelters will close and the staff will not be able to continue working for the city in this capacity. There will be a cost of closing the sites and storing approximately 700 shelter and service structures. Other potential funding is being explored at the state and county, both of which are already heavily invested in other services. There are no other available funds within Portland Solutions for this program. Equity Impacts The city shelters serve the City of Portland’s most vulnerable population: unsheltered individuals. This population disproportionately includes individuals with medical issues, mental illness, substance use disorders, and disabilities. BIPOC populations are over-represented in this population as well. All of these populations would be severely impacted by the City’s inability to provide shelter beds, leaving them to suffer in the street. This suffering often leads to death and the city has seen a drastic increase of domicile unknown (generally indicating homelessness) deaths to over 400 in 2023. The city will track these outcomes through its existing shelter data dashboard which portrays number of individuals in City’s shelters, their demographic data, and outcomes (e.g. placed into housing, returned to homelessness, etc).

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