For the first time in almost a year, Ashland’s former emergency homeless shelter has reopened. But, it will provide shelter only until April 1.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently released its annual report assessing homelessness across the country. California and Oregon continue to have large numbers of people without permanent housing.

As people gather for the holidays, sharing meals and gifts, a hunger crisis in the Pacific Northwest is getting worse.

In June, the nation’s highest court ruled in favor of the City of Grants Pass, deciding that cities could impose criminal penalties without running afoul of constitutional provisions against cruel and unusual punishment.

City leaders around the state want more authority to remove encampments they deem problematic. Homeless advocates say it’s a distraction from real solutions.

Gov. Newsom launched an ambitious program that uses Medi-Cal to help Californians access housing, healthy food and more. Now, its fate is in the hands of President-Elect Trump.

This year, a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court gave cities the power to clear homeless encampments. In Yreka, authorities decided to wait until those removed had a place to go. They’re still waiting.

Thousands of people statewide have been at least temporarily housed through Project Turnkey, an Oregon program that turned $125 million into nearly 1,400 new shelter beds, mostly by buying and converting existing hotels and other vacant buildings into shelters.

Dan Cano is now the executive director of Opportunities for Housing, Resources, and Assistance, known as OHRA.

Many California cities offer their homeless residents one-way bus tickets to other places.

Hunger rates plummeted in Oregon in the years leading up to the pandemic, but then COVID hit and during the following two years, the number of Oregonians struggling to put food on the table rose, a recently released Oregon State University study found.

Homeless Californians face many barriers to casting a ballot, even in elections that affect their lives. Some counties and nonprofits are trying to boost turnout.