People living outside were especially vulnerable. Of the 456 homeless people who died on Portland’s streets in 2023, nearly two thirds died of an overdose. Most of those deaths involved fentanyl.

Cases in Multnomah County among people who have not left the country nearly doubled last year, and the number appears to be rising.

Portland's business community met Thursday to hear about the Metro Supportive Housing Services tax, which currently funds ...

There’s frustration in Portland over a move by the state legislature to possibly reduce funding for homeless housing ...

A Portland nonprofit is launching a program to help curb deadly violence among people experiencing homelessness — a group disproportionately represented on the city’s list of homicide victims.

Shay Dufort, an advocate for the homeless community in Portland, said people who are staying at the shelter have told her they are concerned about safety in the area. “A lot of people who live ...

PORTLAND, Ore ... t tracking what they call "inflow and outflow," which is the number of people newly becoming homeless and the number of people exiting homelessness. This is supposedly ...

The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously today to send $15 million to the city of Portland to fight ...

Wilson says that Portland now has the highest unsheltered homeless rate in the history of the city, with more than 5,300 people living on the streets. With that, comes the highest number of ...

Attorney Alicia Rea, a former Lewiston city councilor and a policy fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, ...

A line formed outside Portland's Health and Humans Services building on Forest Avenue on Wednesday afternoon. Some people held paper grocery bags, others had bright orange containers, all filled with ...

“We have an urgent situation where people are homeless or at risk of becoming ... which is impacting every corner of the state – not just Portland,” she said in a statement.