New Lexington survey reports slight dip in city’s unhoused population

Ramsey says last year’s passage of the Safer Kentucky Act, which enacted a statewide street camping ban, has made it harder to locate unsheltered people than in previous years.

The Catholic Action Center’s street survey reports there’s 5.5% percent less people living homeless in Lexington than last year. That comes out to around twenty-nine-hundred people living unsheltered or in temporary housing.

The survey sends teams of volunteers out to interview the unhoused in the span of one day…

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