The homelessness crisis in Multnomah County, Oregon, is among the worst in the country. Home to deep-blue Portland, where the deaths of homeless people quadrupled between 2019 and 2023, according to data from the county health department, Multnomah has a per-capita homeless rate of 1.3 percent , and some shelters are closing due to budget problems. That means that there is more demand than ever for the county's public housing resources. Multnomah allocates those resources using a points-based