Hundreds of volunteers and health workers scoured the city before sunrise this week as part of an annual count of individuals who don’t have permanent shelter.
Final numbers, typically released in April, are used to determine how much federal aid cities and counties receive for housing and mental health programs — and also to assess how effective current interventions have been.
Over 300 volunteers with clipboards and questions tried to learn more about the unhoused, including underlying causes like mental health, childhood trauma, substance use disorder, unemployment and the high cost of housing…