(Salem, OR) -- Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has formed local groups around the state that will implement her homelessness state of emergency. It applies to regions of the state where homelessness increased 50-percent from 2017 through 2022. The goal of the Multi-Agency Coordinating groups is to prevent 87-hundred households from becoming homeless this year, add 600 low-barrier shelter beds and rehouse at least 12-hundred people who are homeless. Kotek says the legislature needs to pass her 155-million dollar proposal to pay for the work.