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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: Take stock, then take action on Portland's Homelessness Crisis
Description: Since 2015, Portland City Council has declared continuous housing emergencies. Weβre now into the sixth year, and the Cityβs housing and homelessness crises are still in full swing. Yet nobody even knows where or how many shelter beds are available in the metro area. Cascade Policy Institute released a new report that offers straightforward solutions to the growing number of unsheltered homeless in the Portland region. Itβs time to get back to the basics. And what is more basic than knowing where homeless people can go?
This means tracking where shelter beds are available and distri...