![]() ![]() “This number indicated that we’ve had a homelessness situation here for awhile, a number of years,” he said. King said another important number from the homelessness count is there were 72 individuals who said they’ve been homeless for more than three years. Of those 27, 19 of them or 70 per cent indicated that they had moved to the area for reasons not directly related to homelessness, including incarceration and family. Of the 213 survey respondents, 27 (13%) indicated that they had just recently (within the last three months) moved to the district. King said homelessness isn’t a new issue for the region.ĭuring the homelessness counts respondents were asked how long they had been in the community. In 2021, the homelessness count increased by seven, totalling 300. The 2020 count identified 293 homeless individuals in the district. Homelessness counts were conducted in 20. “We’re trying to control the costs of hotels.” “We’ve used some housing stock townhouses that were unoccupied for families as we were trying to get them out of the crisis centre,” he said. Mark King, chairman of DNSSAB said hotel rooms are the “driver” of the rising costs. The information was delivered during Wednesday’s District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board’s community services meeting.Ĭoun. There were almost 200 households who spent more than 7,000 nights in a hotel room last year due to homelessness within the region.
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