The count identifies the minimum number of people who are unhoused, sleeping rough or accessing short-term or transitional housing.
The city is currently working to figure out how many homeless people there are in the Queen City. On Tuesday night nearly 100 volunteers helped with the fourth annual Point in Time or PIT count.
“It’s an opportunity for us to gather data that we can give to the federal government and then they use that data to help them make a decision on how much funding to give to communities across Canada,” said Robert Byers, the president and CEO of Namerind Housing Corporation, who helped with the count.Byers hopes the 2024 data will be calculated before Christmas. And will the numbers be higher? Byers said it is hard to say.
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