“We want to know if the number of homeless individuals has gotten larger than it used to be. Has it gotten smaller or has it stayed the same and what does that mean?”
Image by Nicholas Pescod, Nanaimo News Bulletin

The extent of the homeless situation in the Harbour City will become clearer in the coming weeks thanks to a nationwide survey initiated by the federal government. Nanaimo was among a handful of communities across Canada that participated in the country’s first-ever co-ordinated Point-in-Time Homeless Count on Tuesday. Organized by the federal government, the count, referred to as a PiT Count, is designed to give communities and the nation as a whole a much better understanding of the homeless situation by surveying those who are living on streets, staying at shelters and in short-term housing.  Read the rest of this article at Nanaimo News Bulletin…