Faith Matters
Homelessness On the Rise in St. Charles County
Volunteers headed out on Jan. 25 to count the number of homeless people in an annual census. The trends point to more people living doubled up or in hotels.
On Jan. 25, I took to the streets in St. Peters to look for homeless people. It was my first year to participate in the Point-in-Time Homeless Count for St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren Counties. Coordinated through the Department of Housing and Urban and Development (HUD), agencies such as the Community Council of St. Charles County agree to gather data and document homelessness throughout the United States. It is done the last week of January each year. Since 2004, Dottie Kastigar, the Community Development Program Coordinator at the Community Council has collected information about both sheltered and unsheltered homeless people. She uses this data to track trends and provide information to apply for state and federal funding for …
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