'I dream of my own apartment': Portland’s homeless yearn for housing as county aims to house 300 people in 4 months

“Housing Multnomah Now” is the county’s latest plan to move 300 people off the streets and into housing over the next four months.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Diamond Howard lit a cigarette while walking her husky in Old Town Monday morning. She’s been homeless in Portland on-and-off for 15 years. She’s currently on four housing waitlists and yearns for a safe place to call her own. 

“I can actually taste it,” she said. “I dream of having keys, my own keys to my own apartment.”

Homeless people like Howard are the focus of Housing Multnomah Now, the county’s latest plan to move 300 people off

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