County board briefed on progress of community-wide effort to provide safety off the streets

Gresham Women's Shelter, offers 90 shelter beds.

Gresham Women's Shelter, offers 90 shelter beds.

This week, A Home for Everyone and the Joint Office of Homeless Services provided updates to the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on the efforts currently underway to provide support to those experiencing homelessness in our community. The hearing highlighted the new shelters slated to open in 2016 and indicate that the County is on track to more than doubling publicly-funded shelter capacity by the year’s end. Click here for the full KGW article. View the briefing here or watch the video here