In The News
East Portland's Springwater Corridor May Now Be the Largest Homeless Camp in United States (July 13, 2016) (Willamette Week)
Portland Might Have Found a Site for It's Next Homeless Camp. The Problem? It's Contaminated (June 8, 2016) (The Portland Mercury)
Educating the Growing Population of Homeless Children (June 7, 2016) (Nonprofit Quarterly)
Controversy Trails Portland's Homeless Crisis...(May 23, 2016) (Inquistr)
Portland Begins Sending Homeless People to Other Cities, Including Seattle (May 22, 2016) (MyNorthwest.com)
Many Upset over Homeless Man Being Sent to Spokane (May 21, 2016) (KREM.com)
Letter: An Encounter with the Homeless (January 14, 2016) (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
Ways to Help the Homeless (January 12, 2016) (Seattle Weekly)
Lawmaker Proposing $300 Million for the Homeless (January 12, 2016) (King5.com)
Funding Committed for Homeless Plan (January 12, 2016) (Portland Tribune)
Salem Confirms Joint Homeless Initiative Role (January 12, 2016) (Statesman Journal)
Bailey Launches Campaign, Promises to Cut Homelessness in Half (January 12, 2016) (Portland Tribune)
Federal Grants to Help Homeless Veterans at Warm Springs (January 8, 2016) (ktvz.com)
Temporary Housing for Young People, By Young People (January 7, 2016) (NPR)
Women's Shelter Opens in Greenwood as Seattle Fights Homelessness (January 6, 2016) (KUOW.org)
Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by 91 Percent: Here's How (January 4, 2016) (NPR)
Portland Area Homeless Shelters Face Dire Days Without Repairs and Renovations (December 29, 2015) (Portland Business Journal)
There's Shelter, And Then There's Housing, Utah Claims Muted Victory (December 15, 2015) (NPR)
Can Cottages Cure Homelessness? Dallas Project to Offer Answers (November 30, 2015) (The Dallas Morning News)
New Stats Boast a Dip in Homelessness - But They Are Not the Full Story (November 23, 2015) (NPR)
Homelessness in Hawaii Grows, Defying Image of Paradise (November 9, 2015) (Fox News)
Tide Starts to Turn Against the "Crime" of Being Homeless (November 3, 2015) (NPR)
Oregon Department of Education- Oregon Schools See Record Number of Homeless Students Despite Improvements in Economy (October 1,2015)
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Homeless Women Find Sexual Violence Part of Life on the Streets (August 18,2015) (Post-Gazette)
It's Unconstitutional to Ban the Homeless From Sleeping Outside, the Federal Government Says (August 13, 2015) (Washington Post)
The U.S. Declared War on Veteran Homelessness - And it Actually Could Win (August 4, 2015) (NPR)
States May Soon Have to Report on Progress of Homeless, Foster Youth (August 3, 2015) (EdSource)
Maria Foscarinis Defends Title V Before the U.S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management (July 14, 2015) (homelessnesslaw.org)
In Hawaii, Old Buses are Being Turned Into Homeless Shelters (June 29, 2015) (Smithsonian.com)
Who Counts as Homeless Depends on How You Ask (January 31, 2015) (america.aljazeera.com)
Our Homeless Crisis (January 17, 2015) (Oregonlive.com)
Study: More Homeless Children Now Than Any Point in U.S. History (November 17, 2014) (CommonDreams.org)
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