âAs warming centers close for the season, the people who used them may return to sleeping outside, in cars, and in places not meant for human habitation,â Courtney Cochran, the coordinator of the countyâs Continuum of Care Department, said in a news release.
In a recap of the winter season, Cochran reported that 82 individuals got emergency hotel vouchers in the winter to sleep in warming center beds in northern St. Louis County, and 566 people used emergency shelter at the Duluth Warming Center and Chum Drop-in Center.
Reached by phone on Tuesday, she confirmed there was an 18 percent increase in homeslessness from 2019 to 2020 in the county, and, after these past months, she anticipated new data will show another rise.
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