A counselor advocating for the homeless community in Portland says tough love and outreach are the keys to helping solve the crisis. For 28 years, Kevin Dahlgren has been working as a drug and alcohol ...

Despite that success, the mayor has not achieved his larger campaign promise of ending unsheltered homelessness in Portland. In fact, the problem is worse. Nearly 7,500 people are living outside or in ...

After months of neighbors voicing concerns, an encampment in Southeast Portland has been shut down by police.

Neighbors say that the tents are just going to return after police cleared a homeless camp and arrested a suspected drug dealer.

PORTLAND, Ore. — On the first day of 2026, many people facing homelessness on Portland streets carried over ongoing challenges as they looked ahead to the new year. "My New Year's resolution is to ...

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson announced Monday that he had successfully set up 1,566 new shelter beds, hitting his target by the Dec. 1 deadline he’d promised during his campaign. “We have to take big ...

Added to all the other homelessness spending in the region – including federal, state and city funding – it equated to roughly $300 per resident in fiscal year 2024. That figure was calculated by ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland Mayor Keith Wilson has achieved one campaign goal, even as the number of homeless on Portland’s streets continues to rise. The mayor is closing in on one year in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Homeless Day of Remembrance events were held in Portland and other communities across the metro region to mourn the lives of people who struggled with homelessness. The St.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The city of Portland is reviewing its policies around fires at homeless camps, with Portland Fire & Rescue taking a new stance on whether to extinguish small fires which are otherwise ...

Aaron Tappley, Antonio Garcia, Brandon Coleman, Carol Horner. The names of 102 Portlanders who died while homeless in 2025 were read out one at a time from the pulpit in the small sanctuary at St.