The point-in-time count to satisfy federal funding requirements for homeless services will take place in Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties starting Thursday night. Long the only estimate of ...

The city of Portland resumed its efforts to clear homeless camps after a temporary halt last week. The seven day pause was ...

See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. Despite efforts to increase affordable housing and keep people housed, the Portland region's homeless population grew by more than 1,000 as ...

A new mayor with no political experience in Portland has an audacious plan — some say naive — to end street homelessness, writes Danny Westneat.

According to the city’s 2023 Point in Time Count, overall homelessness in Portland increased by 65% from 2015 to 2023, with people living unsheltered in the streets jumping to an estimated 6,297 ...

Janet Mills to limit housing assistance. AUGUSTA — City officials may develop a homeless shelter model similar to one used in Portland to bring people in off the streets and into safe housing.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The small Oregon city at the heart of a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that allowed cities ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — As the weather turns cold and wet, tensions around the supplies distributed by Multnomah County to homeless people are heating up. The attorney behind a lawsuit against the city ...

who is homeless in Southeast Portland. Since the ban went into effect, Portland police records indicate that just nine people have been arrested under the prohibited camping ordinance.

It’s been more than three decades since Portland homeless service nonprofit Transition ... The goal — to keep people from resorting to sleeping on city streets — is universally celebrated ...

A Portland nonprofit is launching a program to help curb deadly violence among people experiencing homelessness — a group disproportionately represented on the city’s list of homicide victims.