Understanding the One Night Count report on homelessness

Last week, the results of the annual One Night Count (renamed “Count Us In” this year) were released, giving us updated data on the extent and nature of the homeless crisis in King County and Seattle. The full report is 116 pages of tables. It’s heavy on data and light on interpretation.  After spending several days poring over the report, here are my thoughts on what it means.

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One Night Count results released today

This afternoon King County released the results of its annual One Night Count (renamed this year to “Count Us In”). It’s a long, detailed report, and the methodology changed this year so making comparisons with previous years is very difficult. I’m going to take a few days to thoroughly read and analyze it before doing a detailed post, but here are pointers to the key reading, and a few top-line points.

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