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SALEM â In January, Eugene community members gathered to mourn the death of at least 30 unhoused neighbors over the past year. But no one knows the total count â Lane County has no system for counting how many people die while homeless. The only county in the state of Oregon that does is Multnomah. But, starting Jan. 1, 2022, the state of Oregon will require medical examiners to include whether a person who died was experiencing homelessness in their report. The hope is that this process will help lawmakers and advocates understand the scope of the sometimes deadly impacts of homele...
View Comments In November, Jill Koehmstedt died at the age of 36 from MRSA while living in Cascades Gateway Park. A chronically homeless man died after an infection that had already required the amputation of one foot and leg, spread to the other. And other individuals struggling with homelessness over the past year have died in the heat, been struck by vehicles ore were on the receiving in of violence. Anecdotally, homeless advocates say they believe the number of deaths are up significantly in 2020 and 2021. There's no way to know for sure. Neither the state nor Marion County track homele...