The chair’s proposed budget prioritizes maintaining and growing the county’s homeless shelter system, while trimming several longer-term efforts aimed at helping people transition out of ...

We’re concentrating all the shelters in one place, and we don’t want Rockwood to turn into Old Town,” Jones-Dixon said.

Some shelters already at capacity have made chairs available for people to stay through the night when all the beds are taken. They can rest their head on the table or warm up with a hot coffee ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson has a new proposal that would stop the distribution of tents to people living on the streets. The new rule would limit ...

After sounding the alarm about a huge gap in homelessness funding for the upcoming fiscal year, Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson presented her fellow commissioners with a proposed ...