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Few solutions left for growing homeless camp on TV Highway
February 09 2021
Campers off Highway 8 near Dairy and McKay creeks reveal gaps in resources for a large homeless population.
With snow on the ground and near-freezing air making the mud hard around a small, tarp-fortified trailer, James Matney stepped outside on his 39th day off heroin.
He has been camping on vacant private property off Highway 8, or Tualatin Valley Highway, near where McKey Creek splits from Dairy Creek in Hillsboro since early December, he said.
In exchange for a cigarette, he allowed Amanda Terpening, a services coordinator at Project Homeless Connect, to ask him questions so he could be included in Washington County s annual point-in-time count. ....

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