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Eighty homeless people died on Portland streets in 2016
[PRESSTV] Eighty homeless people have died on the streets in the Portland last year, adding to more than 350 people who have disappeared while homeless in the past six years.The number marks a 70 percent increase in homeless deaths in Multnomah County, home to Portland, local authorities said Thursday. This is since officials first began tracking the homeless in 2011 and is in line with similar significant increase in homeless deaths in other large West Coast cities where the homelessness has surged. The annual report is used as a barometer to track the city’s progress addressing a crisis that has also overwhelmed cities from Seattle to San Diego. In Seattle, a similar count found 91 homeless people died in 2016 and 115 perished in San Diego. In Sacramento County, that number was 71 people. In Santa Clara County, 132 homeless people died in 2016 ‐ a 164 percent increase since 2011, according to data from county medical examiners in those counties. "These neighbors are literally dying right in front of us," Deborah Kafoury, chairwoman of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, said. "This is unacceptable. This is not normal." The US Department of Housing and Development released numbers earlier this month indicating the overall homeless population in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Oregon and Washington grew by 14 percent over the past two years. Posted by: Fred 2017-12-16 |
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