After discussing the “Housing and Urban Development: Homeless assistance Programs” and PIT counts in class, I became more educated on the several methods the government practice to identify the number of chronic homelessness occurring in our communities.  Counting and Surveying the homeless population is an efficient strategy to understand and assist the homeless needs to improve their access of social services.  One of the factors that was disturbing to recognize was the large number of unsheltered homeless people in counties were homelessness seemed to be seen hidden from the population.  Therefore, it brought to my attention in what way can our communities can express the voice of the homeless to reach the others the necessary help to stabilize their lives and our communities to become a better society.  Many people get educated of the causes of homelessness by the observations and experiences they have encounter with a homeless person, but they disregard the facts that homelessness is expanding annually in our neighborhood.

I believe that encouraging people to get involve in our communities and educate them in HUD assisting programs and its outcome towards the reduction of homeless can improve the reliable services families obtain.  Being able to be informed more about in depth homelessness have broaden my thoughts in understanding homelessness through another  vision of what I was accustomed to, and learning more about the complexities of the subject.

https://www.onecpd.info/resources/documents/UnshelteredCountsGuide.pdf

http://www.appliedsurveyresearch.org/homeless/