500 homeless calling the trail home ALONE.    

Portland is going to have to wake up and accept that the January 2014 Point In Time count that indicated that there were 1,887 unsheltered homeless on any given night in Portland is grossly inaccurate. 

The biggest elephant in Portland's room is that the number of unsheltered in Portland is as high as 12,500. And now that the PBA's law suit has been dismissed, the camping will continue until Ted Wheeler takes office. However, Wheeler is not going to be able to start massive sweeps in January with sub freezing temperatures. 

I predict that the Springwater Corridor homeless tenting/camping will continue until next spring at which time the number of campers will have at least doubled.

The good news is that in January of 2017, a new Point In Time count will be conducted and the Springwater residents can be counted accurately. 

The situation is a big S%*t Sandwich and we all gotta take a bite. 

Welcome to PDX.