If Mayor Keith Wilson doesn’t reach his goal of adding 1,500 shelter beds by Dec. 1, don’t blame a lack of effort. The mayor, whose campaign rested almost entirely on a promise to end unsheltered homelessness by increasing the availability of emergency beds, has been relentless in pursuing that mission. Despite tightening budgets, he’s more than two-thirds of the way there.

But even as Portlanders should applaud Wilson’s urgency, the rushed rollout of the new shelters has been far from flawless. As The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Lillian Mongeau Hughes reported, the 100-bed Moore Street Shelter in North Portland, which opened in January, neglected to provide staff with required training . Its opening has also been accompanied by a surge in emergency responses to both those within the shelter

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