Farmworkers live in this affordable housing project in Lebanon. A new housing program will help Oregonians on Medicaid receive up to six months in rental assistance. (Courtesy of Oregon Health ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Worker Mike Friley removes a table during an eviction in the unincorporated community of Galloway on March 3, 2021 west of Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Stephen Zenner/Getty Images) Oregon saw a record ...

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 ...

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 Oregonians ...

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 ...

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.

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — As the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world on its head, thousands of Oregonians were threatened with eviction as they struggled to pay rent in an economy that had stalled. In ...

John Herrick’s hands shook as he fought back the anger he felt at a state system that had promised him a lifeline, then failed to deliver. He was standing in the small motel room in Southeast Portland ...

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS)-- the state's housing authority--claims auditors "chose" to use "invalidated data queries," when determining that the agency can't account ...