Homeless Study Shows More Homeless In Central Arkansas
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A preliminary study says there are about 15
percent more homeless people in Central Arkansas than there were in
2001.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock performed the study
for the homeless advocacy group Central Arkansas Team Care for the
Homeless.
The preliminary study found that about three thousand homeless
people reside in the four-county area, up 15 percent from
26-hundred in 2001. The count was done on February 26th, when a
coalition of homeless advocates and Little Rock police officers
counted one thousand, 736 people.
Some say that unseasonably warm weather that night could have
skewed the numbers. The study found 450 unoccupied beds in central
Arkansas shelters.
The estimate was also raised to include as many as 500 homeless
children.
