Five candidates have filed to run for the two open seats on the council. They include incumbent council member Andrew De Jong, Kristine Cook, Dean Flaherty, Patrick Miller and Donald Regan.

Portland City Council is reconsidering its partnership with Multnomah County to tackle homelessness, a move that Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson called "disappointing."

It was supposed to be a routine update with no vote. A week after a joint meeting between Portland City Council and the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, the City Council met to outline the takeaways and progress in a recently adopted Homelessness Response Action Plan.

"We're not getting meaningful or measurable results, and I think the city has started to do a lot by itself because the county isn't holding up its end of the bargain."

Some voiced concerns about what they say is a lack of necessary progress, in spite of spending millions of dollars on the issue.