About 5,100 people became newly homeless last year in Clark County, according to data released Friday.
A total of 8,894 people experienced some form of homelessness in Clark County in 2024, according to the annual report from Council for the Homeless. That’s a 2 percent increase over 2023, when 8,752 people were homeless.
The recently released Council for the Homeless data is different from numbers gleaned from the annual Point-in-Time count, which is conducted under guidelines from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on a single day in January…