""This is a major change. We're going from nighttime count to early morning count because we feel we'll be reaching more people at night people. I was homeless for 18 years. You could never find me," said Del Seymour, Co-chair San Francisco's Local Homeless Coordinating Board."
""They're not allowing any volunteers on the count. And so, they're relying on city outreach workers, who in our experience, when they did the RV count, they missed 1 in 5 RVs. It means that it's not open. And you don't have the observers and the people participatory process that I think is really important to make sure that everything's going well," said Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director SF's Coalition on Homelessness."
""We will be identifying vehicles that appear to be occupied and trying to assess if somebody is living in that vehicle. Certainly, if there's a tent on the street, we make assumptions about how many people are in those tents and try to put together the most accurate picture possible," said Cohen."
San Francisco is changing the Point-in-Time homeless count for the first time in more than two decades. The count will move from an overnight event to an early morning window from 5 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Trained city employees and outreach workers will conduct the count instead of community volunteers. The change aims to improve visibility, identify occupied vehicles, assess whether someone is living in vehicles, and estimate people in tents. Critics raise transparency concerns, note prior RV counts missed roughly one in five RVs, and warn that removing volunteers eliminates independent observers.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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