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Officials now have a much better idea of how many homeless people live in Multnomah County. It’s a lot.
Multnomah County officials released a detailed data dashboard Wednesday that captures the size, demographics and housing status of the area’s constantly fluctuating homeless population for the first time.
County officials say it is the most comprehensive list they’ve ever had. It’s also the longest.
According to the new data, 14,864 people were homeless in Portland in February. That’s nearly 3,000 more than the county estimated had been homeless in January 2024, a jump county officials attribute in part to their improved data collection work.
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