massive strain on public service. for the latest installment in our series homeless in america. our producer went to oregon where one small charity is fighting to improve a desperate situation in eugene. watch. our first stop in portland, obamacare wasn t meant to be work related for breakfast in upscale fashionable pearl district. when we arrived we found a homeless man rifling through a crash can in the parking lot a dirty syringe. homelessness in portland looks a lot like what we have seen in other cities. lots of tents, lots of drugs. the city s permissive culture temperate climate and generous social services attract i have a grants and addicts from around the country. we met a woman called liberty hope off cloverleaf she says she came to the west coast because she needed medical treatment for her leukemia. she moved to portland after police towed her motor home. they towed my motor home. got out nowhere to go. but i couldn t leave because