Oregon’s Homeless Population Is 8th Largest in the Nation, HUD Count Shows
Oregon finds itself near the top of another tragic list as the year comes to an end. The Beaver State had the eighth-largest population of homeless people on a given night in January 2024, according to a “point-in-time” count released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this week.
U.S. homelessness up 18% since 2023; Oregon alone in not counting most unsheltered people this year, feds report
Oregon was the lone state in which officials opted not to conduct a new count of people living unsheltered in nearly all its most populous counties in 2024, the federal report indicated.
HUD’s figure represents an increase of 118,376 people and an 18% jump from the number of homeless people counted in 2023.
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