Data on homelessness delayed by Portland, Multnomah County 'turf war' | The Story | April 15, 2024

April 15 on The Story: Eight years ago, leaders at the city of Portland and Multnomah County formed the Joint Office of Homeless Services as a clearinghouse for both entities to coordinate their efforts to address homelessness. But that relationship has been fraught since the beginning. As Willamette Week recently reported, the joint office has been flying essentially blind, without consistent data to guide its efforts — and it stems from wrangling between the city and county that, until just this year, kept JOHS from working with a city-held database. Now that they have it, county officials are realizing that it's all but obsolete and won't be sufficient to gather and share the kind of detailed information that they need to track.

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