Portland has opened 890 new shelter beds since Mayor Keith Wilson took office in January , with more expected to be announced soon. Most of the new beds are at the overnight-only shelters that have been a focal point of Wilson’s push to end unsheltered homelessness.

But data released Friday shows that those beds, while used nightly, are rarely full.

Two shelters that opened in August, both run by the church-based shelter nonprofit Agape Village, have yet to fill more than half of their beds on average each night.

The Salvation Army-run women’s shelter in Old Town grew from 52 beds when it opened in January to 100 beds on July 1, but has never averaged more than 50 guests a night. Just 32% of beds were full each night at the 100-bed Church of the Nazarene shelter in Southeast Portl

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