During a year that saw both evictions and funding for Houston’s programs combating homelessness soar, an annual count of the region’s homeless population found the overall count stayed flat.
. The city, county and their partners housed 2,500 people in 2022, and more than 9,000 people who had been without homes were housed through their programs on the night of the count.
The count is required for regions that get funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and is carried out to certain specifications. The surveys tally where people spend the night during a designated night in January, when, the theory goes, cold weather is likely to push a larger share of the homeless population into shelters, where they’re easier to count.
In downtown, many instances of homelessness are easily visible, but in the less densely developed eastern Harris County, Eric Johnson and Molly Permenter had to get creative. The two outreach workers for the Coalition for the Homeless tried to piece together where people may be living out of sight. That afternoon, along an access road for the Sam Houston Tollway, they were trying to find a man they’d driven by. He’d been walking in that direction, and they looped around to find him when they noticed what looked like a path worn by foot traffic into the woods.
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