Danbury Volunteers Conduct Homeless Survey

Volunteers conducted a survey inside three Danbury shelters Tuesday night to learn more about homelessness.

The survey is conducted by the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness and involved volunteers across the state to provide insight about the homelessness issue, NewsTimes reported.

The survey includes questions to assess how many of the state’s homeless live on streets as opposed to shelters, their demographics, whether the people are chronically homeless, if they are veterans and other information, NewsTimes reported.

According to a report by the CCEH, more than 14,000 people used Connecticut’s homeless programs in 2011 and on average, 100 percent of Connecticut’s shelter beds were filled virtually every night of the year. These numbers are up 12 percent from 2010, the report states.

The results from Tuesday’s survey will be submitted to the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which appropriates housing vouchers annually, according to NewsTimes.

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[Photo courtesy of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness]