Winnipeg street census offers snapshot of city’s homeless during pandemic – Winnipeg

A census by End Homelessness Winnipeg, taken this spring throughout the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, helps to create a snapshot of how many individuals are homeless within the metropolis — and who these persons are.

The Interim Avenue Census, which was recorded between April 21-22, discovered of that of 1,100 Winnipeggers, 370 had been in unsheltered areas whereas 300 had been in emergency shelters like The Salvation Military and Foremost Avenue Mission.

It additionally discovered 66 per cent had been Indigenous.

Nearly half of these utilizing emergency shelters had been between the ages of 25 and 49, and 4 per cent had been dependent kids beneath 18.

Finish Homelessness Winnipeg mentioned its information was collected from emergency shelters, encampments, transitional housing, useful resource centres and unsheltered areas.

Attributable to it being carried out throughout the pandemic, the outcomes aren’t as thorough as in previous road censuses, however a full road census is tentatively deliberate for 2022.

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