{"id":12809,"date":"2024-12-11T15:33:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12809"},"modified":"2024-12-09T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T23:27:01","slug":"oregon-has-highest-rate-of-homeless-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12809","title":{"rendered":"Oregon has highest rate of homeless families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite record spending of up to $500 million per year (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/portland\/shocking-amount-spent-on-portland-metro-homeless-interventions\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/portland\/shocking-amount-spent-on-portland-metro-homeless-interventions\/\">$531 million in 2023 alone<\/a>), Oregon&#8217;s homelessness is becoming even worse. In fact, it&#8217;s the worst in the nation. Oregon is now #1 in rate of homeless families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Axios reports that Oregon&#8217;s rate of unsheltered homelessness among children is 19.9 for every 10,000 kids, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/ohcs\/about-us\/Documents\/state-of-the-states-housing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>, which relied on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2024\/02\/14\/portland-state-homelessness-report-oregon\">point-in-time<\/a>\u00a0survey data, a census count conducted on one night. <br>The second-ranked state, Hawaii, had a rate <strong>less than half<\/strong> that of Oregon, with 7.2 of every 10,000 kids experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The national average was just 1.4.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2024\/12\/06\/homeless-families-children-shelter-women\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2024\/12\/06\/homeless-families-children-shelter-women<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite record spending of up to $500 million per year ($531 million in 2023 alone), Oregon&#8217;s homelessness is becoming even worse. In fact, it&#8217;s the worst in the nation. Oregon is now #1 in rate of homeless families. Axios reports that Oregon&#8217;s rate of unsheltered homelessness among children is 19.9 for every 10,000 kids, according to the\u00a0report, which relied on\u00a0point-in-time\u00a0survey data, a census count conducted on one night. The second-ranked state, Hawaii, had a rate less than half that of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12809\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3kB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12812,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions\/12812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}