KITV 4 Covers the 2020 O‘ahu Point In Time Count
Point-In-Time Homeless Count goes digital on the streets
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Over four hundred volunteers hit the streets on Thursday to take part in the annual Point-In-Time Homeless (PIT) Count.
Thursday, January 23rd 2020, 10:58 AM HST by Eddie Dowd
Over four hundred volunteers hit the streets on Thursday to take part in the annual Point-In-Time Homeless (PIT) Count.
It's a yearly survey run by Partners In Care with other agencies that tries to put a number on the amount of people experiencing homelessness in the City and County of Honolulu on a single day in January.
The numbers will be sent in a report to the federal government and will help determine how much funding Hawaii gets to fight homelessness.
This year is the first time the study went digital and volunteers used an app to log information collected.
Info from the street gets sent to a center in Honolulu where it's processed using a live data map that gives staff a real time look at the numbers.
Partners In Care says the data will then be sent to the federal government and the full report will be released to the public in MAY.
