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As part of a pilot, a homeless outreach team responds to nonemergency calls downtown, balancing business interests with social services.

Public agencies are funding private security guards in homeless shelters and on the street, opening a new front in the state’s housing crisis — one ripe for violence and civil rights issues, but thin on oversight.

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An auditorium was filled with dozens of people Thursday who said they felt that the way Portland is doing things when it comes to homelessness is all wrong.Thou

LOS ANGELES — The rows of white canvas cabin tents newly erected in an out-of-the-way quarter of Culver City, along the bank of Ballona Creek, have the ambiance of an

Taking people off the street and into tents is a new twist on homeless shelter being explored by the San Francisco-based Urban Alchemy in two tent villages operating in Los Angeles and Culver City.

Taking people off the street and into tents is a new twist on homeless shelter being explored by the San Francisco-based Urban Alchemy in two tent villages operating in Los Angeles and Culver City.

The first residents are expected in the new village by late July to early August.

The first temporary alternative mass shelter site is slated to open later this month at an inner Southeast Portland industrial space known as the Clinton Triangle. What was initially pitched by Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office last fall as part of a $27 million homelessness plan to serve up to 250 people in tents at each of three designated sites, has evolved significantly. The first outdoor temporary alternative shelter site, or TASS, as the city...

There are enough units to house up to 60 people at the Reedway Safe Rest Village.