Portland has opened 890 new shelter beds since Mayor Keith Wilson took office in January, with more expected to be announced soon. Most of the new beds are at the overnight-only shelters that have been a focal point of Wilson’s push to end unsheltered homelessness.
But data released Friday shows that those beds, while used nightly, are rarely full.
Two shelters that opened in August, both run by the church-based shelter nonprofit Agape Village, have yet to fill more than half of their beds on average each night…