Resources: Homeless Count 2011 Findings
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Decreased Family Homelessness, Increased Single AdultsThe number of persons in homeless households with at least one child decreased by 28%, from 1,570 to 1,139. The decrease was most significant for unsheltered families - down 67% from 72 families in 2009 to only 24 in 2011. |
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CHART: 2009 Homeless Household Types CHART: 2011 Homeless Household Types |
New resources effectively housed families with minor children and contributed to these significant reductions. Priority Home Partnership helped 272 people in families with children, both sheltered and unsheltered, move into permanent housing, and forty families moved from shelters to permanent housing through resources secured from the County’s participation in the federally funded Family Options Study. Resources connected to the study included 60 permanent housing subsidies from local housing authorities.
Unlike the reduction in family homelessness, the number of homeless adults without children increased by 10% since 2009, from 2,771 to 3,039. In 2009, nearly two thirds of the homeless were adults without children (single individuals, couples, and members of all-adult households). In 2011 that proportion grew to nearly three-fourths of the total homeless population.
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