On Jan. 25-26, Four Homeless People On Local Streets

According to a recent study, there were 666 homeless people in Chester County overnight from Jan. 25 to 26. Four of them were on the streets in the Exton-Malvern-Paoli area.

The 2012 Point-in-Time Count was conducted by the county Department of Community Development and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The majority of the homeless people were in shelters that night, but not all, according to a press release issued by the county:

In Chester County, 419 adults without children and 72 families, with 223 total members, were in shelters. Last year, 709 individuals were in shelters. The report also found 24 people were on the streets with 16 being in West Chester, four in the Exton, Paoli and Malvern area, three in Kennett Square and one in Phoenixville.

“While our over-all numbers are shrinking, the amount of people in families experiencing homelessness is rising,” the report stated. The number of individuals in families that were homeless in 2011 was 205, 18 less people than in 2012.

The study was conducted with the help of more than 100 volunteers, according to the press release.

The National Weather Service reports the temperature dropped to a low of 38 F at 11:48 p.m. the night of Jan. 25. There was no precipitation that day, but an average wind speed of 7.3 mph.