PORTLAND, Ore. — Despite all the urgency ahead of a special legislative session plagued by delays and shadowed by looming layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation, Gov. Tina Kotek has yet to sign the stopgap bill that lawmakers narrowly passed at the end of September.

For ODOT's road maintenance efforts through the end of the year, the bill remaining unsigned won't make a difference. They're still dependent on the old funding regime until January — and that's a problem felt on the streets of North Portland, where homeless people encamp on property overseen by the state agency.

Jennifer says she became homeless on the day her husband was killed in a crash: July 5, 2021. Her old RV was hit and destroyed too, she said.

Since then, Jennifer says she's found a new RV to live in,

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