During the next month, Jacksonville will again 'count' the homeless. Since I've provided my resignation to the Lead Agency, I won't be involved with it this go around, maybe another time.
What I do know are the problems the prior counts had, as well as similiar problems in other cities. Counting the people in day centers, shelters, and other locations as well as those 'moving' during the night count doesn't provide an accurate picture.
Likewise the 'math' used that's acceptable, 'according to studies'. It just sounds so BS to me.
There's the people in the bushes you can't count. The campers. The car sleepers. The ones behind an empty building, or let alone in it. Hospitals, whether in need of a shoulder pain pump or dyalasys treatment...they can't all be counted.
Try adding on an additional 2,500 minimum, and you might get close...because we're talking a metropolitan county with a million residents at last count.
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