The Council for the Homeless conducts a county-wide “one-day homeless count” once each year as required by both the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and by Washington state law. Volunteers and outreach workers visit shelters, service providers and other locations where people who are homeless may congregate in order to take a statistical and demographic snapshot of homelessness in Clark County.
The chart below reflects statistics compiled on January 28, 2010, as reported to HUD and must be considered in the context of a one-day "point in time" count by volunteers and staff at 19 "unsheltered" sites, 12 "sheltered" sites and 24 transitional housing locations. The next count is scheduled for January, 2011. Statistics from that count should be available in April of 2011. |
