Overnight from Jan. 24 to 25, the Chester County Department of Community Development conducted its annual Point-in-Time Count of homeless people. The department just released the results, which revealed that 213 people were experiencing homelessness in Chester County that night — a significant reduction compared to the 2023 figure of 436. Several factors impacted the decrease: milder weather meant fewer people were in Code Blue emergency shelters, and two transitional housing organizations closed their programs in 2023, so the 2024 count did not include them.
Source: Chester County; 6/6/2024