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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

In this Aug. 10, 2016, file photo, Deitra Schmer watches as her granddaughter, Andrea Brown, brushes her hair and grandson Adrian Atkinson, right, looks on in Schmer's tent in a homeless encampment along the Springwater Corridor bike and pedestrian trail in Portland, Ore. In 2015 counters found 3,800 people sleeping on the streets, in shelters or in temporary housing with about 12,000 more squeezed into homes with other families.

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