Advocates are still split over the best way to help people who are homeless, as cities enforce public camping bans.

The proposal is a response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that dealt a blow to a small set of protections for people living outside in public.

One year after the Supreme Court ruled that cities are allowed to remove homeless encampments, Grants Pass — the Oregon city that gave name to the case — can't legally remove an encampment there.

The U.S. Forest Service began closing a sprawling homeless encampment in an Oregon national forest on Thursday, closing the area for a fire-prevention project and forcing those living there to ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A dozen people were injured in a stabbing attack at an Oregon homeless shelter on Sunday night, and a suspect was arrested, police said.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A dozen people were injured in a stabbing attack at an Oregon homeless shelter on Sunday night, and a suspect was arrested, police said. A man with an eight-inch (20-cm) knife ...

Suspect in custody after 11 stabbed at Oregon homeless services provider The incident took place at the Union Gospel Mission's 50,000-square-foot Men’s Mission, which opened in 2021.

Washington, D.C. had the same rate as Hawaii and New York. Meanwhile, Wyoming and North Dakota had the smallest numbers of homeless people, with fewer than 1,000 statewide each.

Eleven people were hospitalized after being stabbed at a homeless services provider in downtown Salem, Oregon, on Sunday night, police said. A suspect was in custody after the violence at 7:15 p.m ...