Rent costs Lane County just $577,304 a year, but the rooms do something a $3.2 million deflection center can’t: house people while they wait for drug treatment.

As of now, people picked up for controlled substances aren’t charged or reported to the D.A.’s office. Nathan Vasquez wants that to change.

Shannon Singleton says the center must connect clients to housing because nine in ten are homeless.

The 1803 Fund didn’t disclose a price, but a lender’s financial report suggests it was at least $6.4 million.

The Oregon Community Foundation granted $125 million to nonprofits to turn motels into shelters.

Portland apartment construction is again in a deep freeze. That might be a bad sign for downmarket affordability.

Multnomah County commissioners were less than dazzled by the performance of the county’s drug deflection center during its first year of operation, which ended Aug. 31.

Back in the day, Portland was the economic growth engine of the greater metro area. Now, it lags compared with the suburbs, especially Clark County, Wash.

“The Wyoming model may not be possible in some states—but the Idaho, Indiana, and North Carolina models are.”

Even with a hoard of new cash, the three Portland-area counties can’t keep up with the number of people becoming newly homeless.