The city and Multnomah County will decommission more than 1,000 adult shelter beds between them by the end of the year. That’s about a third of the beds that existed in January. There will also be fewer day centers, fewer street outreach teams and less eviction prevention funding, among other cuts.

How the Portland area got to this point just six years after voters approved a tax that has generated $1.6 billion for homeless services across the metro region is a convoluted story of rash promises, unexpected catastrophe, floods of money, contested spending priorities and several factors outside local control.