The average age of death was 49, according to the annual Domicile Unknown report Trauma, addiction, chronic health conditions and more claimed the lives of 80 people experiencing homelessness in Multomah County last year, according to the county’s just-re ...
14 Dec 2017 - Street Roots Staff
Street Roots editorial Last year, 56 people died while experiencing homelessness in Multnomah County. In 2011, the figure was 47. In addition to these numbers, we know that even more people on the streets died in local hospitals that were not counted by t ...
9 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
By Mridula Koshy and Michael Creighton, Contributing Columnists A year and a half ago, our family returned to Portland after six years living in India. We found many things had improved in our absence. For example, food carts had become an affordable alte ...
10 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff