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Dan Field, Kaiser Permanente's executive director of Community Health & External Affairs, will lead the city-county partnership effective April 28.

The joint city-county homeless service agency has a new director.

In Multnomah County, a major barricade between getting unhoused people off the street and into permanent housing is a lack of available property. While past ballot measures have created funds to build new housing for people leaving homelessness, the number of available apartments doesn't meet the current need across the metro region. To address this dearth of available public housing, Multnomah County officials are turning to the private market for support. On Wednesday, county leaders...

GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY! It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters! All the latest stories shipped directly to your email's in-box... and then... YOUR HEAD.) • Exit Interview With Outgoing JOHS Director Shannon Singleton Outgoing JOHS Director Singleton...

Marc Jolin, the director of the Joint Office of Homeless Services (JOHS) is stepping down from his role leading the department shared by both the city of Portland and Multnomah County. Jolin joined JOHS as its inaugural director in 2016, a few years after taking the helm of the county's A Home for Everyone initiative, a committee made up of regional leaders and social service experts convened in 2014 to collaboratively address the region's homeless...