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If your organizations encounters homeless persons on a sporadic basis, please help the Alliance make everyone count by completing the Service Site Survey between January 27th and February 11th.
Please click on the links below for instructions on completing the survey.
2011 Service Site Survey Materials
2011 Service Site - Video tutorial for completing the survey
Did You Know1...
- Roughly 1.56 million people, or one in every 200 Americans, spent at least one night in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program in 2009?
- On a single night in January 2009, 643,000 people were homeless across the nation - with nearly one-third living on the street?
- On January 22, 2009, 1,190 people were homeless in suburban Cook County - nearly 8% (156 people) were found in locations unsuitable for human habitation?2
What can you do to combat homelessness in your community?
Volunteer to help with the 2011 Homeless Count!
1 Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of, The Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (2009) (June 29, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1680873
2 Alesky, Jessica, 2009 Homeless Count in Suburban Cook County, (May 29, 2009), created for the Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
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