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 ...

The 48-year-old was also in and out of Portland’s downtown jail on theft, trespassing and drug possession charges over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. — 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 ...

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 ...