North Portland homeless shelter to re-open after $9.4M renovation

PORTLAND, Oregon – A North Portland building that was once a drug store, then an eye sore, is now just weeks away from housing more than a hundred people. The Arbor Lodge Shelter on North Lombard Street and Denver Avenue is the latest effort funded by a measure voters passed in 2020. People referred from surrounding neighborhoods will get priority in 106 shelter bed space. Both the city and county hope it brings them closer to their goal of adding 1,000 more shelter beds by the end of 2025.

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