First year report card

A report on the first year of Portland Street Response was presented to City Council today. Here are a few random tidbits from the report:

• 89% of calls to PSR required no further help from Police or Fire.
• 65% of calls to PSR involved someone experiencing homelessness.
• None of the calls to PSR resulted in any arrests.
• PSR staff followed up with 44 clients, making a total of 437 visits, helping them with housing applications, benefits referrals, and shelter referrals.
• Nine clients found permanent housing thanks to PSR.

Here is the full report at PSU’s Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative  (144 page PDF with executive summary).

Here is a video at portland.gov of the presentation to City Council (2 hours with captions for the hearing-impaired).

Coverage in local media:

• Oregonian
• Portland Tribune