Homelessness

Now, four months into Wilson’s mayoral term, the day center — which an estimated 1,800 people currently rely on — is set to close. Kristle Delihanty, director of PDX Saints Love, said without city funding, she has no other choice.

The Southern Oregon city has faced an increasingly visible homelessness problem in recent years, including a series of lawsuits.

People and providers have spent months trying to tap a new program intended to support health by keeping people out of homelessness, and they say that in the Portland area it’s turned into a bureaucratic nightmare in which the promised help often does not arrive in time.

With few options, little support and growing health risks, being older and homeless comes with unique difficulties.

Wilson delivered a message of hope in the midst of uncertainty at his first address Friday.

National homeless advocates say the evictions show the Trump administration’s ineffective approach to a widespread housing crisis.

Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is floating a 22% cut to the county’s homeless services programs in the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1.

A lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service seeks to stall the camp removal, citing the needs of disabled people and the need for a more thorough environmental assessment.

All four of the city’s homeless campsites will be within two blocks of each other.

A new trove of data on Multnomah County’s homeless population dropped this week, offering the public an updated and more accurate understanding of the region’s homelessness crisis.