To understand the impact of domestic violence on women’s housing stability, the Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team surveyed 150 women from July through October 2024 across eleven women’s daytime and overnight shelters throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Faced with a homeless services system largely built for men, women experiencing domestic abuse may find themselves choosing between violence and the street.

Malachai Martin is accused of second-degree murder in the Sept. 4 shooting of 21-year-old Malik Wilkerson. Court records show officers arrested Martin on Jan. 9 in an unrelated domestic violence assault case in Multnomah County and then identified him as the suspect in the killing.

Thursday was the start of the Point In Time Count, it’s a snapshot of the number of homeless people in a county on a given night.

Forcing survivors to litigate their restraining order hearings is a regular reality — and a gaping fault in a system that continues to fail battered women, advocates say.

A pastor in Portland, Oregon, says his church is preparing to provide sanctuary to people lacking legal status who risk being removed from the country under President Donald Trump’s plans to conduct mass deportations.

Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of domestic ... domestic violence and homelessness. The surveys were conducted at women's shelters in Salem, Oregon, about 25 miles ...

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The Pacific Northwest became fertile ground for groups bent on political violence during the first Trump administration.

President Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot defendants this week. Over 1,500 people were charged with or convicted of crimes, ranging from sedition to felony assaults to misdemeanor charges that amounted to little more than trespassing. The vast majority received pardons. 14 sentences were commuted.

The biennial federally mandated survey helps provide a snapshot of those experiencing homelessness in the metro area on a given day.