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=== Homelessness ===
== Government ==
The [https://www.portlandoregon.gov/25999 government of the City of Portland] consists of an elected City Council, Mayor, Commissioners (4) and an auditor. Each of these officials is elected city-wide for a four-year term.
Additionally, Portland is organized into 95 officially recognized neighborhoods. These neighborhoods and the city government as linked via Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement and the (volunteer) City-funded neighborhood associations of each of the neighborhoods.
The neighborhood associations are further collected into seven geographically-grouped district coalitions (with some exceptions) through which the City's funding flows.
The Greater Portland area (including the City proper) is further administered as a region by [http://www.oregonmetro.gov/ Metro], the United States' only directly elected metropolitan planning organization. Metro is a chartered organization that was put in place via statewide ballot measure in the 1970s
Metro's mandate covers mapping, coordinating urban development, transportation, and land use planning, managing natural resources, and solid waste management. Metro owns and operates the Portland Center for Performing Arts, the Oregon Zoo, the Oregon Convention Center, and the Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center (aka the Portland Expo Center).
Metro oversees a regional Master plan (the 2040 Growth Concept) that as of this writing (2017) can be characterized as focused on increased density, transit-oriented development.
Multnomah County, in which Portland sits and is the county seat, manages many of Portland's services. Washington and Clackamas counties also form part of the Greater Portland metropolitan area.
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