Count of Homeless Useless, Official Says
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WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau’s special $2.9-million count last year of people sleeping outdoors and in shelters was so flawed that it is useless as a tool for designing programs to help the homeless, a congressional investigator said Thursday.
L. Nye Stevens of the General Accounting Office, in testimony to a joint hearing of House and Senate subcommittees, lent support to what the homeless and their advocates have been saying since the March, 1990, operation.
The Census Bureau had said from the outset that it did not intend to count all the homeless in the operation, which found 228,621 people without homes.
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