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• Arethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host

  August 11

  I thought Obama got it out of a sense of relief of being rid of Dubya.

  Gramps49 wrote: »

  Net Spinster wrote: »

  I note the counted numbers are down from last year. For DC the point-in-time count was 5,138 which was 478 fewer than last year. This included 1,356 who were in family units with minor children (440 units with 855 children). 199 were veterans.
  https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2025/05/14/homelessness-in-metropolitan-washington-results-and-analysis-from-the-annual-point-in-time-pit-count-of-persons-experiencing-homelessness-featured-publications-homelessness/

  
  @Net Spinster Are you saying the last count had 1,356 family units this year, but there were 440 units last year?

  
  No: of the 5,138 homeless people 1356 were members of families with children. Those 1356 (of whom 855 were children) made up 440 families (which could be one adult one child or more than that).
• BroJames Purgatory Host

  August 11

  No. Surely it is simply that 1,356 of the homeless (855 of whom were children) made up 440 family units.
• Gramps49 Shipmate

  12:29AM

  Thank you for the clarification. No dispute here. I have been involved in the homeless count in Spokane over several years. If anything, I always felt it undercounted the real numbers. Even the Housing and Urban Development Department admits it is not an exact count. But, it is what we have.
• Net Spinster Shipmate

  5:40AM

  1,356 people of whom 855 were minor children in 440 families