Kristine Eno sued Central City Concern and Multnomah County for $3 million on August 27, one of seven similar legal claims alleging residents' bodies went undiscovered in the nonprofit's transitional housing; the suit alleges 34 undetected deaths across the 2,400 units the provider runs in the county. HUD issued updated demolition-and-disposition guidance August 28 letting housing authorities with 75 or fewer units exit the public housing program all at once, citing a $170 billion capital-needs backlog — its third notice affecting public housing agencies in three business days. The House returns from recess today, with a vote expected this week on the Senate-passed continuing resolution running through December 11, and HUD's supplemental brief in the First Circuit Continuum of Care appeal is due by 5 p.m. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city will rebid all of its homelessness services contracts over the next several years. The Portland section runs short today: little fresh local reporting appeared over the weekend, so the balance shifts to regional and national coverage.
Fresh Portland-area reporting was thin over the weekend: the city's social housing study report and the weekly street services report had not posted by publication time, so today's edition runs two local items and leans on regional and national coverage.
Kristine Eno sued Central City Concern and Multnomah County for $3 million, alleging the provider failed to conduct wellness checks on her brother Eric Eno at the Shoreline transitional/parole residential complex and that his body went undiscovered for approximately 11 days. The suit is one of seven similar legal claims over bodies that went undiscovered in the nonprofit's transitional units, and it alleges 34 undetected deaths across the 2,400 public housing units Central City Concern runs in the county.
A prior wrongful-death case involved Brendan Mackey, who died at the same Shoreline facility in February 2024.
The Mercury reported that Go Portland Go, which registered as a political action committee with the state in April and lists homelessness and behavioral health among its five priorities, has received more than $130,000 in contributions per state records. Its largest donor is the nonprofit Partnership for Progress, which gave $32,000 in June and has advocated for homeless camp sweeps and treatment-first approaches; Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle gave $25,000 the same month.
Boyle gave $150,000 in 2023 to a group lobbying to dismantle Measure 110.
San Francisco will seek new contracts for all of its homelessness services over the next several years, the Chronicle reported. The mayor's office described the rebid as a bid to boost accountability and results for the hundreds of millions of dollars the city spends on homelessness annually.
Mayor Daniel Lurie rejected several recommendations of a June civil grand jury report on the city's oversight of homelessness contracts on August 24.
The 2026 homeless count recorded 671 RVs in the 400 square miles of unincorporated Antelope Valley desert, down from 1,432 the year before, a drop that accounted for three-fourths of a 21% countywide decrease in RVs. Pearblossom Town Council president Christopher Minsal, who led the local canvass teams, and council member Jose Centeno said the numbers are wrong and that RV arrivals have not slowed; tract-level tallies in Littlerock/Pearblossom swung from 4 to 349 to 253 over three years. LAHSA did not dispute the miscount assessment and defended its method for counting the area in a statement.
The L.A. City Council on August 26 called for a review of the 2026 point-in-time count, which showed a 1.2% countywide increase in homelessness.
A fire Wednesday at an abandoned Babcock Avenue property in Studio City, where neighbors reported encampments and years of unanswered complaints, prompted mayoral rivals Karen Bass and Nithya Raman to blame each other for the lot's condition. Raman said her office flagged the property to the mayor's office in November; emails reviewed by the Times show her staff listed it as the second-most urgent of five nuisance properties in her district. Bass said she took action the same day the situation was brought directly to her attention, and city crews cleared and fenced the lot by Friday.
Bass and Raman were the top two vote-getters in the June 2 mayoral primary and met in their first post-primary debate August 19.
Westside Current · 2026-08-28 · on a UCLA study of student homelessness in Los Angeles County schools
UCLA researchers found L.A. County schools saw a 30% increase in student homelessness between the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years, with an estimated 61,249 K-12 students experiencing homelessness in 2023-24. A separate statewide UCLA report counted 298,254 California students experiencing homelessness in 2024-25, a 10% increase from 2018-19.
California has approved a one-time $116 million allocation to help schools identify students experiencing homelessness.
Kansas City reached a relocation agreement August 27 with the North Lawn Tenant Union covering 10 households forcibly displaced August 21 when the North Lawn apartment complex was condemned, plus two units vacated since May over deteriorating conditions. The city will pay for storage units, moving costs, groceries, a security deposit and three months' rent, drawing on $500,000 from its Housing Trust Fund approved August 13. KC Tenants and the mayor's office negotiated the deal at city hall.
Mississippi Clarion Ledger · 2026-08-26 · on the Homeward JXN rental assistance program in Jackson, Mississippi
The Jackson City Council voted 5-1 on August 25 to approve a two-year, $220,000 agreement naming the Mississippi Housing Partnership as third-party administrator of a tenant-based rental assistance program, the final administrative step before the city's Homeward JXN initiative launches in September. Council documents show about $2.04 million of Jackson's $2.2 million HOME-ARP allocation will cover rent and utility deposits for an estimated 200 people for up to 12 months, with monthly rent projected to average $850. Planning and Development Director Angela Brown said the program is about closing encampments and moving people into stable housing.
The city will hold a community event September 1 to provide an update on Homeward JXN.
The Washington Times · 2026-08-28 · on the House vote on the Senate-passed continuing resolution through December 11
The Washington Times reported the House would return from its summer recess Monday, August 31, to vote on the Senate-passed stopgap bill extending current spending levels and policies through December 11, four weeks ahead of the September 30 deadline. The bill is being brought to the floor under suspension of the rules, which requires a two-thirds majority, and punts full-year spending decisions until after the November midterm elections. The White House issued a statement of administration policy backing the bill, saying "President Trump strongly opposes another futile government shutdown."
The House's own continuing resolution, passed July 21 by a 220-205 vote, ran only through December 4; the suspension vote would adopt the Senate's December 11 date instead.
HUD announced updated guidance (PIH-2026-23) for its public housing demolition and disposition program, citing an estimated $170 billion capital-needs backlog across PHA-managed properties. The changes expand the definition of obsolete buildings eligible for redevelopment or sale, allow PHAs with 75 or fewer units to reposition all their properties at once and exit the public housing program, and expand demolition and disposition eligibility for mixed-finance and scattered-site properties. HUD said the tools will move public housing to the Section 8 platform and reduce reliance on federal funds.
This is HUD's third PIH issuance affecting public housing agencies in three business days, following the MTW offsets-and-appeals notice PIH 2026-22 and the Operating Fund calculation notice PIH 2026-21.
A Public Policy Institute of California study estimated that Proposition 47, the 2014 ballot measure reclassifying certain drug and property felonies as misdemeanors, led to about a 10% increase in street homelessness between 2015 and 2019 — roughly 7,000 additional unsheltered Californians, about 20% of the state's overall unsheltered increase in that period. The researchers, led by Magnus Lofstrom, also found the measure increased drug use as measured by overdose deaths and hospitalizations by 7% to 8% and reduced the number of Californians receiving drug treatment by 20%, because courts referred fewer people into treatment programs.
California voters partially rolled back Proposition 47 in November 2024 by passing Proposition 36, which restored felony charges for some repeat drug and theft offenses.
HUD published a 30-day Paperwork Reduction Act notice seeking OMB approval to renew the information collection requiring public housing agencies to maintain and make available written admission and continued-occupancy policies under QHWRA and HOTMA, with comments due September 28. The revision updates burden calculations to reflect that the number of active PHAs has fallen from 2,774 to 2,667 since the last approval, which HUD attributed to PHA mergers and program terminations through the Rental Assistance Demonstration. HUD published a companion 60-day notice for the Public Housing Capital Fund Program collection the same day.
The predecessor 60-day comment notice for this collection published February 18, 2026 at 91 FR 7508; this is the renewal of OMB Control No. 2577-0230, not the separate work-requirements rulemaking.
2026-08-31 — HUD supplemental memorandum due by 5 p.m. in First Circuit No. 26-1923 on § 11382(a) set-aside discretion and § 11386b(d)(1) "bonuses or other incentives" (source)
2026-09-01 — Jackson, Miss. community event providing an update on the Homeward JXN rental assistance program ahead of its September launch (source)
2026-09-02 — Appellees' supplemental response due by 5 p.m. in First Circuit No. 26-1923, two days after HUD's memorandum; any HUD reply due two days after that (source)
2026-09-08 — Berkeley's Eighth and Harrison encampment scheduled to close, per notices to residents (source)
2026-09-08 — Comments due on HUD's proposed rescission of the 2024 floodplain and Federal Flood Risk Management Standard rules (source)
2026-09-08 — Comments due on HUD's proposed Unified Grant System (HUGS) recipient financial reporting collection (source)
2026-09-14 — Comments due on HUD's CDBG-DR allocation formula notice (Docket No. FR-6337-N-02) (source)
2026-09-18 — NW Northrup Shelter in Portland's Pearl District closes permanently, one year after opening (source)
2026-09-28 — Comments due on HUD 30-day information collection notice, "Public Housing Reform; Change in Admission and Occupancy Requirements" (source)
2026-09-30 — FY2026 government funding expires; the House is expected to vote this week on the Senate-passed continuing resolution running through December 11 (source)
2026-10-09 — Comments due on HUD's proposed amendments to the Fair Housing Act disparate-impact standard (source)
2026-10-19 — Offset appeals due 5 p.m. ET from original Moving to Work agencies under HUD Notice PIH 2026-22 (source)
2026-10-27 — Comments due on HUD 60-day information collection notice, "Public Housing Capital Fund Program" (source)