Portland has been in a homelessness crisis so long, our political leaders accommodate it as the new normal.
Nine years after former Mayor Charlie Hales declared a homelessness emergency, politicians can recite the contributing factors and assign blame to nebulous forces outside their control. If that doesn’t suffice, they blame the COVID pandemic. Limite…
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