From the Cottage Grove Sentinel:

The housing crisis in Oregon continues to evolve, and the latest data from the 2025 Point in Time (PIT) Count offers a critical snapshot and trending data that helps shape the story of what homelessness looks like in our local communities.

Community Services Consortium (CSC), the Community Action Agency serving Linn, Benton, and Lincoln Counties, coordinated this year’s PIT Count in January, capturing data on sheltered and unsheltered individuals and families across the region.

This year’s count revealed 1,502 individuals experiencing homelessness across the tri-county region, a modest increase from last year’s total. Notably, Linn and Benton Counties reported more sheltered individuals than unsheltered, a reversal from previous years. This shift is attributed to increased state investments in shelter funding and the presence of cold weather sheltering operations in Linn and Benton County during the January count, which temporarily brought more people indoors just in time.

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