(Portland, OR) -- Multnomah County has a new way to follow the homeless crisis. Once a month, an online dashboard is being updated. It shows the total number of homeless people, the number of people receiving rent assistance and how many people enter and leave homelessness each month. In January, more than 14-thousand people were homeless, 75-hundred people were in housing, 57-hundred people received rent assistance and 36-hundred people were living in shelters. The numbers show homelessness is up 26 percent.