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How do our local governments and service providers learn about the current and ever-changing status of homelessness in communities?

Community Services Consortium (CSC) helps with this by coordinating the annual Point in Time Count in Linn, Benton, and Lincoln counties, a federal Housing & Urban Development (HUD) requirement for every community in the country.

Understanding and examining modern homelessness in comparison to Point in Time Counts from previous reporting years helps local service providers and city and county governments determine how to make changes in funding, outreach and p...