Service providers, survey subjects are frustrated that data collection isn’t dynamic and no action follows
Downtown Eastside Lookout shelter last week when two young women came in asking if he would be willing to participate in a survey about homelessness.spent half an hour answering their questions. How old was he? Almost 70. When did he first become homeless? Eleven months ago, when he lost his room at the Lucky Lodge, where he’d lived for several years. Had he lived somewhere else before Vancouver? Yes, Victoria, but he’d moved to Vancouver 12 years ago.
She and her team found that both volunteers and the people being asked a long series of questions about their lack of housing – some of whom have participated in almost every homeless count since they started in B.C. in 2003 – were getting frustrated that the process did nothing to help individuals.“With anonymous data, that person can never be linked to housing,” Ms. Atkey said.
The counts also miss many people. About 60 per cent of young people who are homeless, for example, don’t identify as homeless. Nor do many people camping in their vans on city streets or on their boats or sleeping temporarily at a friend’s house. Others refuse to participate in any counts. For someone like Tim Richter, the current CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, not having that capacity to track people hobbles any co-ordinated effort to reduce homelessness.
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