Portlands Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness turns 10: “The last count showed almost 4,000 homeless men, women and children in Multnomah County, and experts estimate the actual number of people who are sleeping outdoors, in shelters, in their cars, in temporary transitional housing or on someone else’s couch may be four times that...If you listen to the bureaucracy, you’ll hear a lot of talk about how well things are going said Brandi Tuck, executive director of Portland Homeless Family Solutions, which runs family shelters in inner Southwest Portland and helps parents and children find housing. But we have thousands of people sleeping outside every night. We have 3-year-old children sleeping outside tonight. Our public policy is failing.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:51:28 +0000
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