Call 360-695-9677. If you are not homeless but behind on rent or doubled up, call at 3 p.m. Tuesdays.
Homelessness in Washington and across the nation has declined significantly since the height of the Great Recession, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released Thursday. The report data reflected the annual single-day “census” of homeless people — called the Point-In-Time count — that’s conducted every January by local agencies working on the problem.
In January 2014, there were 18,442 homeless individuals in Washington, according to the report. That’s 19.4 percent below the January 2010 peak of 22,878 homeless people. In the shorter term, state homelessness dipped sharply from 2012 to 2013, but then rose slightly again in 2014 — 4.4 percent, or 782 homeless individuals.
In Clark County, annual Point-In-Time counts zigzagged during the height of the Great Recession, but more recently the total number of homeless individuals has dropped — from 1,020 in 2012, to 703 in 2013, to 695 in 2014.