At least 126 people who died in Multnomah County in 2020 were homeless at the time of their death. On Wednesday, the county released its annual "Domicile Unknown" report on the number of unhoused residents who died in 2020—identified by the phrase "domicile unknown" on their death certificate. The 2020 total is the highest number the county's seen since it began collecting this data in 2011. However, the report notes, the percent of people homeless.
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• Portland Commish Jo Ann Hardesty is strongly denying the story reported in an
Oregonian article this morning that she was involved in a minor hit-and-run accident on Wednesday. She calls the allegation a smear campaign and very suspicious, since she says her car has been inoperable for nearly a year, AND (as our Alex Zielinski reports) the story was originally circulated by local Republicans whose disdain for Hardesty is very obvious.
UPDATE: Unsurprisingly, Commissioner Hardesty has been cleared by the police who say she is NOT a suspect in the hit-and-run case.