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Barriers To Transitional Housing Access Among Homeless Male Adults In The City Of Portland, Alexander T. Raines
Barriers To Transitional Housing Access Among Homeless Male Adults In The City Of Portland, Alexander T. Raines
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From 2011 to 2014, there were 191 confirmed deaths among homeless persons living in Multnomah County, approximately 88% of which were among adult men (over the age of 18). This alarming statistic in no way-shape-or-form represents the demographic makeup of Multnomah County’s homeless population, with a 2015 point-in-time count finding males over the age of 24 comprising just 52% of Multnomah’s homeless. Among these individuals the average age of death was just 43.3 years old; for comparison, the standard life expectancy for a man born in Multnomah County is 76.6 years old. This pattern of vulnerability among homeless men may …