The proposal would add some limits to how tents and tarps are distributed, but critics don't feel it's any significant ...

The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday to review the county’s tents and tarps policy, after Portland ...

With little fanfare, Multnomah County has adopted a new policy that lays out rules for how it will distribute tents and tarps ...

Some county commissioners said the policy proposed on Tuesday fails to address previous tent and tarp distribution issues and lacks accountability. Others argue that, until we have enough shelter ...

"Handing out a tent in a person's time of great need is like putting a Band-Aid on gangrene. It's not helping out at all," he said.

In one day, he and his students made them a wooden shelter. The families were able to move their tents inside and cover the wooden structure with tarps. “Those people deserve a warm place to sleep,” ...