Portland is set to add 280 new “recovery-oriented,” overnight-only shelter beds at two locations in the next several weeks. When those beds – all located in the Buckman neighborhood of Southeast Portland – and the recently announced family shelter beds come online, the city will have opened 1,090 new overnight shelter beds since the start of the year. That figure is about two thirds of the way to Mayor Keith Wilson’s goal of adding 1,500 beds by Dec. 1.

“At this point, we’re gonna deliver for Portland,” Wilson said Wednesday. “We’re going to deliver on our promises and we’re going to really focus on the turnaround that we all really wanted in our city.”

Still, the rapid addition of hundreds of new beds in less than a year has not been without a few stumbles.

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