(Portland, OR)  --  The City of Portland has eight-million dollars available for rental assistance.  Four-and-a-half-million dollars comes from a previous federal rental assistance program, while another three-point-eight-million dollars comes from the federal CARES Act.  The funds are expected to provide at least three months of emergency rent assistance to approximately two-thousand households.  The Portland Housing Bureau is working with Home Forward, the Joint Office of Homeless Services and other Multnomah County agencies to distribute the money.