This week, more than 200 volunteers are helping advocates collect data to quantify homelessness in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties.
The Point-in-Time Count is the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual census of people experiencing different types of homelessness.
According to data from last year’s count, a total of 2,726 adults and children in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties were experiencing homelessness. About 60% of those people were staying in shelters. The other 1,090, or about 40% of the total, were unsheltered…