What happened: Portland-area governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year trying to keep people off the streets. By almost all accounts, it’s not working. For the past six months, WW has been reporting on what happens when private companies try to do better. The business model works like this: A company operates an outpatient mental health and addiction treatment clinic, recruits people straight off the streets, and gives them temporary housing in residential neighborhoods. So far, these efforts have not met a warm reception. In August, WW reported on neighbors’ complaints that one such company, WiiCare, was housing a dozen people in a sober living home on a quiet street in the outer Northeast Portland neighborhood of Wilkes. The home was unregistered with the state-and WW’s reporting showed that state regulators couldn’t decide whether such oversight was required.