Service providers, survey subjects are frustrated that data collection isn’t dynamic and no action follows
Dave McAleer was hanging out in the kitchen area of Vancouver’s 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.
If some permanent housing opened up that he could apply for, “there’s no way of telling me about it,” Mr. McAleer said, as he stood at the corner of an alley on Columbia Street near Hastings, leaning on his walker. Critics note that homeless counts, besides not doing anything to help individual people get housing, also give the public an inaccurate picture of the state of homelessness in a city or region.
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.
Proponents of the point-in-time counts say the information is still valuable for some purposes, as long as everyone understands their limitations and their uses. They provide an understanding of the demographics of those currently homeless, they say, and whether there have been significant changes in particular areas.
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