Multnomah County paid rent for homeless families for 1 year. Now some of those families face homelessness again

“Move In Multnomah” launched in the spring of 2022. It covered rent for about 200 households. Now it’s ending and many of the families it helped aren’t prepared.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A program aimed at getting people off the streets and into housing in Multnomah County has come to an end, and some who benefited from it are now at risk of returning to the streets.

Multnomah County launched Move In Multnomah in the spring of 2022. It used supportive housing services tax money to cover most of a year’s rent for more than 200 households. In turn, it was meant to incentivize landlords to rent

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