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Multnomah County by-name homelessness dashboard prompts new questions about scale and funding allocation
Summary
Councillor Mark Zimmerman and others briefed the committee on a new by-name dashboard from Multnomah County and an Eco Northwest report; the data show a larger-than-expected regional homeless population and renewed scrutiny of how supportive-housing-service (SHS) funds are allocated.
The Homelessness and Housing Committee on April 22 heard an update from Councillor Mark Zimmerman on the Homelessness Response System Steering and Oversight Committee (SOC), which earlier this month received a new Multnomah County “by-name” homelessness dashboard and an Eco Northwest report on the impacts of the region’s supportive housing services funding.
Zimmerman said the county’s dashboard — the first by-name list publicly available in the region — reveals the scale of need in new detail. He told committee…
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