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'Administrative collapse:' Advocates blame evictions on new Oregon Health Authority housing program

People and providers have spent months trying to tap a new program intended to support health by keeping people out of homelessness, and they say that in the Portland area it's turned into a bureacratic nightmare in which the promised help often does not arrive in time
May 1, 2025
 
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Tents in downtown Portland on March 14, 2022. | SHUTTERSTOCK

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