Supportive housing services: Addressing homelessness in greater Portland

Supportive Housing Services Regional Oversight Committee

The Supportive Housing Services Regional Oversight Committee is made of volunteers who provide independent and transparent oversight of the fund. The committee includes community members with diverse personal and professional experience and expertise, including people with experiences of housing instability and homelessness. The committee helps make sure the fund is fulfilling its goals, and makes annual reports and presentations to the Metro Council and the boards of commissioners of Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties regarding the program’s challenges, successes and outcomes. The committee meets at least every three months through the life of the program.

Meeting materials

Future meetings

Meeting materials are available in PDF format about one week in advance.

Jun 26, 2023

Jul 24, 2023

Aug 28, 2023

Recent meetings

Meeting materials are available in PDF format. The meeting minutes are posted after committee approval.

May 22, 2023

Meeting packet
Archival meeting packet.
3.5 MB Adobe Acrobat PDF Published May 26, 2023

Apr 24, 2023

Meeting agenda89.72 KB Adobe Acrobat PDF Published Apr 17, 2023
Meeting packet4.58 MB Adobe Acrobat PDF Published Apr 20, 2023

Mar 27, 2023

Meeting agenda169.62 KB Adobe Acrobat PDF Published Mar 24, 2023
Meeting packet4.67 MB Adobe Acrobat PDF Published Mar 24, 2023

Committee members

Maria Hernandez

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Maria Hernandez is a conscientious, hard-working professional who utilizes her skills and knowledge to make a difference in people’s lives by assisting those who are struggling to maintain stable housing or who are houseless. As a teenager she experienced houselessness herself, which ingrained her passion and drive to help others find housing and to provide wrap around services for those most in need. Maria has over 6 years’ experience in property management where she housed low-income farmworkers and their families. She has a passion for working with diverse populations and worked for the metro 300 program, which then led her to become the SHS Program Manager at Bienestar and is currently supervising seven staff in the supportive housing services field. She believes supportive housing services is a lifelong project, but with committed individuals and community support, this work can be transformative and achieve flourishing communities.

Stefanie Kondor

Pronouns: she/her/hers

As senior vice president of development for Related Northwest, Stefanie Kondor is responsible for establishing Related’s presence in the northwest while leading and managing all aspects of development and financing for affordable developments.

Prior to joining Related, Ms. Kondor was director of real estate development for Central City Concern, where she managed the land acquisition, entitlements, and due diligence process for the development of new clinical and affordable housing in Portland, Oregon. While at CCC, she was a recipient of the Housing Oregon’s Star Player Award in 2017 and led her development team named as top affordable housing developer by the Daily Journal of Commerce for 2018. She developed award winning projects receiving the prestigious AIA/AAH design award for Healthcare Design as well as the Novogradac New Market Tax Credit QLICI of the Year for her development of the Blackburn Center. As senior asset manager for Bayside Communities, she managed a portfolio of more than 60 multifamily properties throughout the west coast including senior housing, assisted living, low-income housing and HUD communities.

Ms. Kondor is a resident of Washington County and works in Portland, Oregon. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the UC Berkeley and sits on the board of directors for the Boys and Girls Club of Portland. She is a member of PSU’s Real Estate Advisory Board and a Portland Housing Advisory Committee commissioner, Hillsboro School District Budget Committee, City of Hillsboro’s Housing Plan CAC and Metro’s Supportive Housing Services Oversight Committee.

Carter MacNichol

Pronouns: he/him/his

Carter MacNichol is a project manager at Shiels Obletz Johnsen and is engaged with supportive housing through his membership on the Board of Transition Projects. His previous participation on oversight committees such as the Oregon Metro Zoo Bond and the City of Portland’s Arts Tax make him experienced in group decision making and collaboration. Additionally, he brings his valuable skills as the founding board chair of Proud Ground and as a developer of several mixed-use affordable housing projects. Carter is dedicated to advancing racial equity by taking “meaningful action to address systemic racism that has led to disproportionate rates of homelessness among the BIPOC community in the region.”

Jeremiah Rigsby

Pronouns: he/him/his

Jeremiah Rigsby is the chief of staff at CareOregon. Jeremiah moved to Oregon in 2011 to attend Lewis and Clark Law School. Before moving to Oregon, Jeremiah was a congressional aide to US Congressman Henry Cuellar (2006-2009) and US Congressman Kurt Schrader (2009-2011). During his time on the Hill, Jeremiah worked on a number of policy issues, but focused on health care policy through the development and passage of the Affordable Care Act. After completing law school, Jeremiah joined CareOregon to help develop and advocate for Medicaid and Medicare policy. Jeremiah is devoted to public service and the committee, stating that “this work is not limited to traditional health care alone, and our work on this committee would be critical to addressing the social needs of populations that have been historically underserved."

Mike Savara

Pronouns: he/him/his

Mike Savara has lived in Washington County nearly his entire life and serves as the interim chief programs officer for the Housing Stabilization Division at Oregon Housing Community Services (OHCS). Mike also serves as a board member of the Washington County Housing Authority Board of Directors. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and addictions counselor with over a decade of experience as a direct service professional for people experiencing homelessness and people living with behavioral health disorders. Mike is passionate about designing systems that put those that need the services at the center, especially communities of color and other groups that have too often been marginalized. Mike is committed to ensuring the measure is successful, especially with a careful eye toward racially equitable programs that will help eliminate the disparities that exist in our community.

Becky Wilkinson

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Becky Wilkinson is the outreach and peer support program manager for Providence Behavioral Health in Oregon. She manages various programs throughout the state, focused on serving people struggling with houselessness and other social determinants of health, coupled with mental health and substance use disorders. Her program won the 2021 American Hospital Association Dick Davidson Nova award honoring programs that collaborate with communities to design interventions that improve the health of individuals and their communities.

Becky earned her master’s degree in social work from Portland State University and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Oregon. She has worked in community outreach within hospital systems for over 13 years and in healthcare for 30 years.

She is a current board member of the Homeless Solutions Coalition of Clackamas County and an active member of the Clackamas County Coalition to Prevent Suicide. She also participates in various workgroups, committees and coalitions throughout Oregon that are focused on health, mental health and substance use concerns.

Becky’s work honors individual’s strengths, while recognizing the impact of social determinants of health on individuals and communities. Becky is committed to “facilitating innovation, uplifting our most vulnerable community members and creating a system of change for other communities to replicate.”

Committee members, elected officials

Washington County Chair Kathryn Harrington

Kathryn Harrington was elected as Chair of Washington County in 2018 with a focus on increasing government transparency and accountability, advancing equity and diversity, addressing affordable housing and homelessness, along with tackling our transportation needs. Having spent the previous 12 years as an elected Metro Councilor working on important regional issues, and after 22 years in the tech industry, she brings her engineer-trained mind combined with her public servant heart to carry out the work of the County. The Chair believes that in the County’s role as a safety net government, centering community need should be the primary focus of the Board of Commissioners. When not working, Kathryn loves to get outside on her bicycle (or her tandem with her husband) and travel around the beautiful Washington County countryside or hike and cross-country ski other parts of Oregon.

Multnomah County Commissioner Susheela Jayapal

Susheela Jayapal has proudly served as District 2 Multnomah County Commissioner since 2019. She was born in India and came to the United States when she was 16, to go to college. An Oregonian since 1994, Susheela has lived in Northeast Portland for over 25 years and is the mother of two Grant High School graduates. Susheela is a lawyer, whose last legal job was as General Counsel for adidas America. As General Counsel, she was responsible for all legal and human resources functions and spearheaded work to improve conditions at the brand’s partner factories worldwide. She also spent two decades as a volunteer community leader/advocate for a number of different community-based organizations including Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette, Oregon Community Foundation, All Hands Raised, Literary Arts, CASA, and Metropolitan Family Service.

Metro Councilor Christine Lewis

Christine Lewis (she, her, hers) represents the communities of District 2 on Metro Council. Christine has a decade of experience in state and local government policy and advocacy roles. Immediately prior to her time on Council, she served as the Legislative Director at the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries. In 2016 she managed the historic housing bond campaign in the City of Portland. Christine’s community involvement includes service as member of the Board of Trustees at Reed College. She is on the boards of the Portland Opera, Willamette Falls Trust and the Willamette Falls and Landings Heritage Area Coalition. Her previous board service includes environmental organizations, groups working to advance women in leadership, and several local government advisory committees. She and her family live in the Willamette neighborhood of West Linn.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler

Mayor Ted Wheeler (he/him/his) was born and raised in Portland and comes from a family with deep roots in Oregon. As a sixth generation Oregonian, he is proud to call Portland home and is driven by his values of strengthening communities through inclusive, effective, and responsive government.

Mayor Wheeler has been in public service for more than 15 years. He was first elected Chair of Multnomah County in 2006 and took office in 2007. Mayor Wheeler was then appointed to the office of Oregon State Treasurer by Governor Ted Kulongoski in 2010 and elected to the position in 2012. He was first elected as Mayor of Portland in 2016, and was reelected to a second term in 2020.

The Mayor graduated from Portland Public Schools’ Lincoln High School, earned an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford University, and later received an MBA from Columbia University’s business school, as well as a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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