The 2020 Homeless Count will take place throughout Metro Vancouver, including Delta, over a 24-hour period starting tonight and continuing Wednesday.
More than 1,200 volunteers will participate in 17 Metro Vancouver communities, counting people at shelters this evening and surveying people on the street tomorrow, a press release notes.
The count represents a conservative, point-in-time snapshot of people who are experiencing homelessness on a given day in the Metro Vancouver region, and has three main goals:
1. To estimate the number of people who are experiencing homelessness;
2. To obtain a demographic profile of people through the count survey; and,
3. To identify long-term trends in the number and profile of people who are experiencing homelessness.
BC Non-Profit Housing Association (BCNPHA) will conduct (with community partner organizations) the homeless count on behalf of Vancity Community Foundation (VCF), the Reaching Home (RH) interim Community Entity.
Results of the count will be released in fall 2020.
The Fraser Valley Regional District also conducts a homeless count on March 3/4.
