7 months off the streets, Portland woman attempts to find security on her own

In the fall, KGW helped a chronically homeless woman move off the streets and into housing. Now we’re catching up with Tara Pietromonaco seven months later.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The transition that Tara Pietromonaco has gone through over the last few months is life-changing, to say the least. For the first time in years, she’s living indoors.

“When I hear noises now outside, I am not worried, you know, or wondering who’s out there or anything like that,” Pietromonaco said, sitting at a large kitchen table inside her Southeast Portland apartment building.

Just seven months ago, those anxieties were second-nature to her while she

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