SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Housing and Community Services announced Friday it will close the Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program (OERAP) on Aug. 12. The portal remains closed to new applicants ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon lawmakers announced Tuesday that the U.S. Treasury is providing the state with more than $3 million in rental assistance funding. More than $2 million will go to Oregon ...

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. — 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. — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Christina Mitchell lost her job during the pandemic, she applied for state rent assistance to help pay the bills at her Tigard apartment. But after she was approved for the aid in April, she said ...

The state’s largest apartment industry group and tenants’ rights groups have come together to ask the state to fund $100 million in rent assistance over the next two years. The landlord group ...

Oregon lawmakers requested an audit after the state faced criticism for problems delivering Covid rent assistance. Oregonians and lawmakers will have to wait a while longer to find out what, exactly, ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregon Housing and Community Services announced Tuesday it will keep the Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program portal open until 11:59 p.m. next Monday, March 21, thanks to ...

Federal government’s last-minute announcement will allow the state to keep its application portal open for one more week and help an additional estimated 2,200 households. An eleventh-hour ...