Kansas City is one of a few cities using a new mobile app to know, and count, its homeless people
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Photo: Michael Ensino lives in a tent camp in Kansas City, Missouri. He and hundreds of other homeless people prefer living on the street to living in shelters, which makes them hard to count during the annual census of houseless people. Photo credit: Laura Ziegler. Article by Laura Ziegler. NPR – December 28, 2021.
Every January, the federal government requires communities to survey their homeless populations. Known as the Point in Time count, it’s widely known to be inaccurate. Kansas City hopes new technology will lead to a better count — and more helpful use of resources.
When gale force winds whipped across the metro for a few short hours in mid-December, they ripped out many of the 40 or so tents staked in a grassy campground at 10th and Harrison in Kansas City, Missouri. There, a camp of homeless […]