Toulan School in the news - April/May 2025

The cityscape of Portland, OR at dusk

April 29—Trump administration will no longer track gender in national homelessness count

Marisa Zapata, Toulan School professor and director of the Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative (HRAC), spoke with OregonLive about the changes to national point-in-time count procedures. In the article, she advocates for including gender in the counts and confirms that the counts for Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties will be released in mid-May.

May 17—Homelessness continues to rise in Portland area even as increased services help thousands

Zapata returns to OregonLive to go over the results of HRAC’s point-in-time count.