To understand the impact of domestic violence on women’s housing stability, the Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team surveyed 150 women from July through October 2024 across eleven women’s daytime and overnight shelters throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Faced with a homeless services system largely built for men, women experiencing domestic abuse may find themselves choosing between violence and the street.

A Portland nonprofit is launching a program to help curb deadly violence among people experiencing homelessness — a group disproportionately represented on the city’s list of homicide victims.

A pastor in Portland, Oregon, says his church is preparing to provide sanctuary to people lacking legal status who risk being removed from the country under President Donald Trump’s plans to conduct mass deportations.

the women’s prison that serves the Portland area, 65% of the women experienced some sort of domestic violence prior to incarceration, according to an Oregon Justice Resource Center study.

To understand the impact of domestic violence on women’s housing stability ... a women’s day shelter in Portland, Oregon. During those sessions, guests anonymously talked with the reporter ...

the women’s prison that serves the Portland area, 65% of the women experienced some sort of domestic violence prior to incarceration, according to an Oregon Justice Resource Center study.

Often, domestic violence and other types of violence ... a women’s day shelter in Portland, Oregon. During those sessions, guests anonymously talked with the reporter about their experiences ...

Thursday was the start of the Point In Time Count, it’s a snapshot of the number of homeless people in a county on a given night.

After DHS revoked previous guidance for immigration enforcement, we VERIFY if ICE agents can now enter schools, churches and hospitals.

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The Pacific Northwest became fertile ground for groups bent on political violence during the first Trump administration.