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<\/a><\/p>\nMany Americans quickly walk past homeless people they see on the street, refusing the recognize them, to many they are invisible. Homeless people deserve the same dignity and respect \u00a0as all people. Everyone deserves to have shelter, food, and water. \u00a0Therefore it is our responsibility to make sure all people are given resources to survive. Through the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development the Hud\u2019s Homeless Assistance program identifies and counts unsheltered homeless people with the goal of planning future services, justifying and allocating resources for programs for the many different subgroups of homeless people. The program also raises public awareness and community involvement. An unsheltered homeless person according to HUD resides in a place not meant for human habitation, such as cars, parks, transportation hubs, tent cities, sidewalks and abandoned buildings. \u00a0Encampments are areas where unsheltered homeless people live. people are harder to count because they are not living in emergency shelters or transitional housing. Many unsheltered homeless people still receive services such as street outreach teams, drop-in centers, \u00a0health care for homeless networks, soup kitchens and mobile van food programs. \u00a0There are a variety of approaches to collecting data on unsheltered homeless people. Approaches include direct street counts with or without interviews and data collection from service programs who may not be readily found in public places. \u00a0Applied Survey Research (ASR) has helped its partners secure additional federal and state funding through its homeless census and survey data!\u00a0The 2007 San Bernardino County Homeless Census and Survey counted a total of \u00a07,331 homeless people plus\u00a0133 persons reported in County-wide Domestic Violence shelters. The total of all unsheltered individuals and families was 6,111. This means that there are only 1,200 homeless people in shelters in San Bernardino County. Below are a variety of bar graphs taken from the study.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Hud’s Homeless Assistance Program.”\u00a0<\/span>A Guide to Counting Unsheltered Homeless People<\/i>. Office of Community Planning and Development Us Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1 Oct. 2004. Web. 9 Feb. 2014. <https:\/\/www.onecpd.info\/resources\/documents\/UnshelteredCountsGuide.pdf>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0“Homelessness – Applied Survey Research.”\u00a0\u00a0Homelessness – Applied Survey Research<\/i>. ASR Applied Survey Research , n.d. Web. 9 Feb. 2014. <http:\/\/www.appliedsurveyresearch.org\/homeless\/>.<\/a><\/p>\n “Community Action Partnership of San Bernadino County.” San Bernadino County 2007 Homeless Census and Survey. Community Action Partnership America’s Poverty Fighting Network, n.d. Web. 9 Feb. 2014.<\/a><http:\/\/www.appliedsurveyresearch.org\/storage\/database\/homelessness\/sanbernardino\/San_Bernardino_2007_homeless.pdf>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many Americans quickly walk past homeless people they see on the street, refusing the recognize them, to many they are invisible. Homeless people deserve the same dignity and respect \u00a0as all people. Everyone deserves to have shelter, food, and water. \u00a0Therefore it is our responsibility to make sure all people are given resources to … Continue reading Counting and Identifying Unsheltered Homeless People<\/span> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n