PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The small Oregon city at the heart of a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that allowed cities ...

Despite efforts to increase affordable housing and keep people housed, the Portland region's homeless population grew by more ...

Oregon saw a 24% increase in the state’s number of sheltered homeless people between January 2023 and January 2024, Portland ...

A new mayor with no political experience in Portland has an audacious plan — some say naive — to end street homelessness, ...

Oregon's high school graduation rates reached the second-highest level in 2024, despite the pandemic's challenges.

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(KOIN) — Oregon saw a 24% increase in the state’s number of sheltered homeless people between January 2023 and January 2024, Portland State University’s latest statewide homelessness report ...

Oregon has just 1.07 homes per household. Another way to express that: Seven in 100 homes statewide in Oregon are vacant, a ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — The 2025 Tri-County Point-in-Time Count, a crucial effort to assess homelessness across Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties, began Thursday. This biennial survey ...