The number of homeless people in Evansville has dropped a bit.
Evansville’s Commission on Homelessness has released its “Point-in-Time” count, which is tallied on a single night in January.
The numbers show 462 people were homeless in Evansville, most of them in seven local shelters. Fifty-three people were living on the street.
Commission Director Timothy Weir tells WNIN that the data represents a seven-percent drop in local homelessness.
He credits the Coordinated Entry program, and says more efforts are in the works to get people off the street, including shelter for inmates released from jail and for homeless people released from the hospital.
Weir says the number of homeless people in Evansville has dropped from about 600 two years ago.