come downtown. However, the hurdle that still exists for the region is homelessness, with 35% of voters saying it's the biggest issue facing the region. Portland city voters were more likely than ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB The shockingly large number of people experiencing homelessness in Portland has been at a crisis level for years — and over and over again, surveys show it’s the ...

The workers picking up street litter for Ground Score, a Portland nonprofit created by and for people with a history of homelessness, have found some wild stuff. One woman found a toy chameleon, which ...

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 ...

Mayor Keith Wilson pledged to end unsheltered homelessness in his first year. But a former Salvation Army employee says the ...

76% of those polled visited downtown Portland at least once during December 2024 compared to 69% the year prior. Homelessness continues to be the top-of-mind issue in the region along with cost of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — As the weather turns cold and wet, tensions around the supplies distributed by Multnomah County to homeless people ... sidewalks of places like downtown Portland, they put ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The city of Portland plans to pause doing camp sweeps for a seven-day period in order to count the number of people experiencing homeless. Between Jan. 20-27, camp removals will ...

Greene discusses the just-released 2024 homelessness study, which showed an uptick in the number of people in homeless ...

A Portland nonprofit is launching ... that it would host a peer-to-peer program at a new downtown office to connect people experiencing homelessness to services. The program, funded in part ...

For years, as Seattle’s street scene frayed with rising homelessness and drug abuse, there was a bitter joke that went around: At least we’re not as bad as Portland. But now our sister-city-in ...