‘Smell of … rotten fish’: Dead man sat for so long at housing complex he had no fingerprints or hair after staff failed to do welfare checks, lawsuit says

An Oregon family is suing Portland’s biggest housing provider, claiming a loved one died at one of its transitional apartment complexes and his body went unnoticed for weeks despite required welfare checks. The provider has allegedly become notorious for undiscovered deaths.

Eric Eno’s family says workers at the Central City Concern (CCC) housing complex where he was living in 2024 — the Shoreline Apartments — were supposed to perform “mandatory” wellness checks on him as part of a “care and safety plan” he had in place after his release from prison.

The housing provider, which helps unhoused residents and adults on parole transition back into the community, was contacted by Eno’s sister repeatedly in July 2024 and August 2024 and asked to perform a welfare check on him, but “employees refused,” according to the family’s legal complaint, which was obtained by Law&Crime on Monday…

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