The data is combined with a tally of shelter beds to gauge the success of the previous year’s service efforts and to estimate how many people will need shelter in the coming year. In 2014 , 1.49 million people used homeless shelters and 578,424 were recorded as being without shelter: sleeping on the streets, in tents, in cars, and other exposed places. Cities completed the 2016 point-in-time count in January. We need to be looking at our country first: creating jobs, housing the homeless, putting money back into the people that are already here. Please sign this petition to stop allowing our government to pay for the cost to house, relocate the refugees into society, and not secure our homeless friends, ex military, or family first. Thank you.



