Data on outreach to the homeless community.

After doing some research, I found out that there isn’t as much support for the homeless as much as 

one would think. In a survey by the Oregonian, 34% of people who said they were approached by a 

caseworker, 75% of them never heard back. Not only are most homeless people not even approached 

by someone to help them out, the ones that do usually never hear from them. Yet, Multnomah county 

has approved roughly 14 million in the last two years for outreach workers. 

It seems as if we as a society need to figure out how to spend this money and use it to help the people

it is supposed to help. Tiny homes are a start but It is going to be a process and things do take time 

but there’s got to be a way to do it faster.

Sources:

Oregonian false promises: 

 https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2022/01/false-promises-75-of-unsheltered-portlanders-contacted-by-a-housing-worker-never-heard-back.html

Oregonian false promises data: 

 https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2022/01/false-promises-who-we-interviewed-for-our-homeless-data-project.html 

 

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