Funding is subject to appropriation.
Issues of poverty, housing, employment, and services for low income people cut across local government lines, said Hooley. In a rapidly growing area like the Portland Metro Region, we have to ensure that those in need don t get left behind by the competing interests of local governments. In the House Banking Committee, Hooley offered the amendment in response to the efforts of the City of Portland who is teaming up with surrounding counties in the fifth Congressional district and in Washington State. The region has agreed to work together to conduct research on regional affordable housing options, develop a regional clearing house of housing programs and services, and are even looking towards developing a regional housing development fund. I would like to see this type of activity encouraged both in my home state and in other rapidly developing areas.