Multnomah County plans to shut a homeless shelter run by Sunstone Way, one of the county’s largest contractors, at the end of March. The county announced the plan in June, but a memo obtained by WW ...

U.S. Marshals are quietly using the Multnomah County jail to hold people in custody until they can be transferred for deportation proceedings, immigration rights groups claim. The allegation — which ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — While the region continues to struggle with homelessness, the number of deaths among Multnomah County’s unsheltered population went down last year for the first time since 2013 ...

It’s the first decrease in deaths recorded from one year to the next since the county began collecting this data in 2011. The data reflect an 18% decrease in the number of homeless deaths from the ...

At least 372 Multnomah County residents died while homeless in 2024, according to the county’s latest Domicile Unknown report. That’s down 18 percent from the 2023 high of 456. Multnomah County ...

Eli Imadali / OPB Roughly 800 households in Multnomah County are at imminent risk of homelessness if a change in federal funding advances as expected. “This is a horrible thing to have to face as a ...