Homelessness

Some homeless services organizations in Portland are borrowing a concept from the commercial real estate world to quickly house people experiencing homelessness. Now they’re looking to scale up the use of what’s called master leasing.

Bend city councilors approved new zoning to draw homeless shelters, but not without making some concessions.

For 70 years, Portland’s Blanchet House has served free, hot meals three times a day, to anyone who would like one. Earlier this month, they reopened to indoor dining for the first time in two years.

Portland has settled with a group of individuals who sued last year over the way the city conducts homeless sweeps.

Bend wrestles with how to clear camps, while also finding a place to shelter people who are unhoused.

Real estate firm Killian Pacific is one of the new committee’s biggest donors, with a $50,000 donation to support the push for more shelters. That donation comes as the company has also sued to stop a shelter in its backyard.

We've heard from service providers, policy makers and elected officials about how best to address homelessness. We wanted to hear directly from people who are living on the streets.

People for Portland's second attempt at a November ballot measure included just one change for the group's original, rejected submission. Metro lawyers said no for the same reasons.

Sales figures jumped from $250,000 in 2019 to $10 million in 2020, company officials said. Today, the shelters are in more than 70 communities, up from just three in 2019.

The nonprofit political group pushing Portland-area leaders to get tougher on homelessness has refiled a ballot measure aimed at changing the region's approach to the housing crisis.