Politics & Government
Howard Counts Unsheltered Homeless
Representatives from the school system will present its policies regarding homeless students this week.
Every year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires jurisdictions nationwide to count their homeless populations.
Called the “point-in-time count,” this data is used to determine eligibility for funding.
“At this point we have only rough data—we’re still in the process of compiling our data on the unsheltered count,” said Janice Brzezinski of Howard County’s Department of Citizen Services. “We do a sheltered count that is also still in process.”
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Brzezinski said the point-in-time numbers for the unsheltered homeless will be available in mid-March.
The 2011 number in Howard County was 189.
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Maryland’s total was 10,148 for last year..
In the last five years, Howard County's homeless student population has grown by 150 percent, according to the Baltimore Sun, which reported that the number of homeless students in Maryland has more than doubled in that time period.
Officials from Howard County will be presenting on the status of school-aged children who are homeless and how the school system is addressing the issue at the March 8 .
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