The department tasked with assisting the needy in Columbia County rejected a proposal by a private developer to build a ...

There are three prisons in Greene County, yet there are zero homeless shelters. When releasing inmates, many parole officers contact Darius Shackleford to find them homes. He says he has the room ...

Greene discusses the just-released ... is that efforts to add shelter beds in Portland have paid off, with a 24% increase in sheltered homelessness. The study also shows one in four homeless people ...

Columbia and Greene counties saw a 39% increase during this time. More contemporary figures from the Columbia County Department of Social Services show 148 people were homeless in January ...