The Los Angeles Continuum of Care Board voted to advance Los Angeles County as the sole candidate to replace LAHSA as collaborative applicant for the $239 million in suspended federal homelessness funds, and the board's chair said HUD has extended the region's reopened application deadline to October 14. The National Alliance to End Homelessness filed an emergency motion asking the First Circuit to act on the reopened FY2026 Continuum of Care funding notice, whose $1.3 billion set-aside a district court vacated in August. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson proposed a $9.1 billion 2027-2028 budget that puts more than $500 million a year toward affordable housing, renters and homelessness services, including $37 million toward 960 new shelter beds by the end of 2027. The Oregonian reported on violence, drug activity and frequent resident deaths at Hollywood East, the 286-unit Northeast Portland complex that is Home Forward's largest managed property. The national section runs two items today: a third candidate story was dropped in verification after its publication date proved to be March 2026, not this week.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that Hollywood East, the largest apartment complex managed by Portland housing authority Home Forward, houses seniors and people with disabilities amid violence, drug activity, pest infestations and frequent resident deaths. The 14-story Northeast Portland building is a project-based Section 8 community with 286 apartments. The article reported the conditions as the city and Multnomah County decommission more than 1,000 adult shelter beds and seek to place people from the streets directly into publicly subsidized housing.
Home Forward's property page says the community has a waiting list preference for seniors and persons with disabilities.
Willamette Week reported, citing the Pittsburgh nonprofit newsroom Public Source, that the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh is poised to pick former Home Forward CEO Ivory Mathews as its next executive director, with a board vote set for its September 24 meeting. Mathews resigned from Home Forward this spring after Willamette Week reported on her travel spending while the agency struggled to fill more than 900 empty units. Home Forward owns and operates around 7,000 affordable housing units and provides about 12,000 housing vouchers on an annual budget of around $300 million.
After Mathews' resignation, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted unanimously to open an investigation into her travel expenditures.
The Oregonian/OregonLive · 2026-09-23 · on Measure 26-267, the participatory budgeting ballot measure
The Oregonian/OregonLive reported on Measure 26-267, the sole city measure on Portland's November 3 ballot, which would create a participatory budgeting program letting residents propose and vote on projects. The measure would set aside an amount equal to at least 2 percent of the city's general fund budget each year — about $16 million — for the program.
The initiative was referred to the county elections division on August 28, 2026, and numbered Measure 26-267.
Portland.gov · 2026-09-23 · on the Inner Eastside Zoning Project comment period
The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability opened an online questionnaire asking residents about priorities for housing, historic preservation and neighborhood business locations ahead of rezoning proposals for inner Northeast and Southeast Portland neighborhoods, where the bureau said zoning has mostly allowed only lower-density housing since the 1980s. The questionnaire is open through November 1, with drop-in events September 26 and October 2 and an online session October 7.
The bureau said the fall feedback will inform zoning concepts to be available for public review in spring 2027.
The Los Angeles Continuum of Care Board voted Wednesday to advance Los Angeles County as the region's 2026 collaborative applicant for the $239 million in federal homelessness funds from which HUD suspended LAHSA; six entities expressed initial interest, two advanced to discussions, and only the county completed the process. Board chair Benjamin Kay said HUD reopened the L.A. CoC's funding notice to September 30 and later extended it to October 14. The CoC general membership must still vote, and the replacement is contingent on LAHSA remaining suspended.
LAHSA has received more than $1 billion in federal funds since 2021, including $220 million in 2024, according to MyNewsLA.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson proposed a roughly $9.1 billion 2027-2028 budget with no new tax increases, relying on more than $90 million in General Fund spending reductions. The proposal allocates more than $500 million annually for affordable housing, renters and homelessness services, including $37 million for new shelter capacity toward 960 shelter beds by the end of 2027, and for the first time funds homelessness services directly from the JumpStart payroll tax. The city estimates the new beds could serve about 1,750 people a year.
The City Council's budget process includes department presentations beginning September 24 and a public hearing October 6.
New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno's administration told the City Council on Tuesday that almost $80 million in cuts are needed to help fill a $100 million deficit in next year's budget if the city does not raise taxes, including cutting 152 full-time city jobs. Among the proposed cuts is recouping $2.5 million by closing the city's only low-barrier city-run homelessness shelter.
The council will hold more budget hearings later this month ahead of a final vote in November.
City records reviewed by KSTP showed the August 5 clearing of the Pig's Eye Park encampment cost approximately $439,746, with more than $333,000 of that tied to contracted cleanup. City Council President Rebecca Noecker said the council was not informed of the total cost beforehand and said, "I don't think it was a success." The city confirmed seven people accepted shelter beds associated with the effort, out of roughly 200 people organizers estimated remained at the site before closure.
The city and Ramsey County had previously committed $2.25 million toward shelter expansion, stabilization beds and case management ahead of the closure.
Only two fresh national items survived verification today; a third candidate story on HUD's work-requirements coalition was dropped after its publication date proved to be March 2026.
National Alliance to End Homelessness · 2026-09-22 · on the Alliance's emergency First Circuit motion against the reopened CoC NOFO
The National Alliance to End Homelessness said it filed an emergency motion asking the First Circuit to vacate the Rhode Island district court's ruling and remand the case so the district court can rule on the plaintiffs' remaining claims, or alternatively to expedite the appeal, with the stated aim of stopping the FY2026 Continuum of Care funding notice before HUD makes awards under it. The August district court ruling held that HUD could not incentivize transitional housing or supportive-services-only projects through a $1.3 billion set-aside without notice and comment. HUD reopened the NOFO with a September 30 deadline after the First Circuit allowed the competition to proceed during the appeal.
The First Circuit ruled September 16 that HUD could move forward with the FY2026 CoC NOFO while its appeal of the vacatur proceeds.
An Urban Institute report found nearly 22 percent of middle-income renters said they could not pay the full amount of rent when it was due at least once in 2025, up from about 14 percent the year before — the largest increase of any income bracket in the institute's annual Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey. Nearly 28 percent of lower-income renters reported being unable to pay for housing sometime during 2025, up from around 24 percent in 2019, and about 7 percent of the highest-bracket renters missed at least one payment. Co-author Samantha Batko said the middle-income shift raises "potential implications for inflow to homelessness."
The Urban Institute defines middle-income renters as adults making between $31,300 and $62,600 for a single-person household or between $53,300 and $106,600 for a family of three.
2026-09-30 — FY2026 CoC Program Competition applications due to HUD, 8:00 p.m. ET (source)
2026-10-06 — Seattle City Council public hearing on Mayor Katie Wilson's proposed 2027-2028 budget (source)
2026-10-13 — Comments due on HUD's Notice of Research Justifying Additional Incentives for Certain Activities To Reduce Homelessness (FR-6628-N-01) (source)
2026-10-14 — Extended deadline for the Los Angeles CoC's reopened FY2026 funding notice, per CoC board chair Benjamin Kay (source)