Despite vehement opposition from neighbors, Portland will move ahead with plans to open an overnight-only homeless shelter in the Pearl District on Sept. 2.

On its first night, the Pearl District shelter on 1435 Northwest Northrup Street will accommodate up to 40 guests, with plans to increase to 100 guests per night by October. Eventually, the shelter could offer as many as 200 beds.

When it opens, the Salvation Army-operated shelter will be the fifth in a series of about 12 to 15 new overnight-only shelters promised by Portland Mayor Keith Wilson. It is the first to have generated intense neighborhood pushback.

“We are concerned about the proposed shelter with great reason, because many of us have been threatened in our own neighborhood by people on drugs who are living on the str

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