Census Homelessness Report

Report: Children lean on homeless services, By Cheryl Wetzstein, September 27, 2012, Washington Times: “A new snapshot of American homelessness finds that some 209,000 people visited soup kitchens, missions and emergency shelters in March 2010, the Census Bureau said Thursday. About half of these people were young or middle-aged men. Adult women represented about a quarter of the population, and 1 in 5 — about 42,000 — were children. New York and California had the highest number of people using homeless services, while the District was one of 10 cities with the largest number. The Census Bureau clarified that its special report, ‘The Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population: 2010,’ is not a tally of the U.S. homeless population…”