"including shifting it from late-night to a morning count, in the hope of avoiding the undercounting problem that critics typically point to. As advocate Del Seymour, a member of the Local Homeless Coordinating Board, tells the Chronicle, the morning count, conducted between 5 am and 10 am on Thursday, will hopefully be a more accurate picture, because unhoused individuals tend to hide themselves at night to keep from being robbed, and that could lead to them being missed."
"The other significant change is that outreach workers and volunteers were tasked with surveying the people they counted something that in previous years happened in the weeks after the count. The city is expecting this will provide a better picture of the homeless population, where they came from, and their circumstances though given the early morning aspect, and the necessity of waking people up in some cases, this likely posed some challenges as well."
San Francisco shifted its biennial point-in-time homeless count from late-night to a morning timeframe of roughly 5 am to 10 am to reduce nighttime undercounting. Outreach workers and volunteers both conducted the count and administered surveys on the spot instead of waiting weeks for follow-up interviews. The city expects the methodological changes to yield a more accurate picture of where people came from and their circumstances, though waking people and early-hour access posed operational challenges. Oakland also conducted morning counts. The counts fulfill a Department of Housing and Urban Development mandate for federal homeless funding. The 2024 census found 8,328 people total, a 7% increase, including 4,355 unsheltered.
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