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‘The Evergreen’: At Portland’s largest outdoor homeless shelter, residents await their next step towards housing
Your browser does not support the audio element. The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering a case out of Grants Pass that asks whether cities can punish people for living outdoors if there’s not enough shelter space for them to go to instead. Clinton Triangle, a large, low-barrier, outdoor shelter in Southeast Portland, is supposed to be the city’s model for how to serve chronically homeless Portlanders, and allow the city to enforce its camping ban policy. We visited the shelter with OPB’s Portland city government reporter Alex Zielinski, who shares the voices of people who’ve lived and worked there, and considers how the shelter’s approach has been working for residents trying to leave homelessness behind.
Census data shows thousands of people leaving Portland — but they may not be going far
Portland’s population went down by more than 4,000 residents between July 2022 and July 2023, according to recent U.S. Census Data. But that doesn’t mean people are abandoning the Portland metro region altogether — though, it could mean they are leaving Oregon. Vancouver, Washington, gained nearly 1,950 residents during the same time period.
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