A multiyear push to increase Portland’s homeless shelter capacity seems to have come to an end.
After regularly celebrating newly opened shelters every year since 2022, the city and Multnomah County have both slashed their shelter budgets and announced that a total of 10 shelters open at the start of this year will be closed by the end. Two other shelters will lose beds but remain open and one city-funded shelter will more than double in size as it absorbs sleeping pods from two closing shelters.
In total, officials expect to eliminate about 1,100 permanent shelter beds…