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For the Record: Jan 31-Feb 13, 2014

Street Roots
by Street Roots Staff | 10 Feb 2014

• Average income needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment in Multnomah County: $17,720

• Average annual Social Security payment for retired workers in Multnomah County: $12,861

• Number of hours per week a worker earning minimum wage must work to afford a two-bedroom apartment in Multnomah County: 71

• Meals served to homeless and at-risk youth through New Avenues for Youth drop-in center and transitional housing program in fiscal year 2013: 63,428

• Percentage of youth who were stable when they exited case management at New Avenues for Youth in fiscal year 2013: 87

• Percentage of callers to 211 who are hungry who also need help paying the rent or paying the electric bill: 52

• Homes built by Habitat for Humanity of Oregon in fiscal year 2013: 75

• Families served by Habitat for Humanity of Oregon in fiscal year 2013: 127

• Average number of people per year who move from the streets to transitional housing through Central City Concern: 1,300

• Percentage of Central City Concern’s housing that is permanent, not transitional: 65

• Number of unemployed Oregonians for every job opening, as of October 2013: 4

• Loaded guns confiscated by the TSA at PDX in 2013: 17

• Children who get meals from the Oregon Food Bank emergency food boxes in an average month: 92,000

• People deported from Oregon, Washington and Alaska in 2013: 4,525

• Veterans registered in Portland between 2008 and 2012: 35,344

• Number of new billionaires in 2013: 210

Sources: Oregon Housing Alliance; New Avenues for Youth; 211info; Habitat for Humanity of Oregon; The Independent; Central City Concern; Oregon Employment Dept.; Oregon Food Bank; Eugene Register-Guard; “Working for the Few” OxFam

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