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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge count included 199 persons in individual shelters; seven women and nine children in a shelter for battered families; 32 families in family shelters; 72 persons in transitional housing programs; 76 unsheltered people; 13 men who were transported by van to Boston for shelter; and others in detoxification programs and hotels...
...said the count is likely an underestimate because only those homeless people who were visible were counted...
Thomas said his office plans to make the Dec. 16 count an annual event and conduct another one this summer, adding, however, that any such one-night count is only a "snap-shot" of the homeless population...
...homeless men and five homeless women who spent the night of Dec. 16 at the University Lutheran Homeless Shelter, a program run by Phillips Brooks House Association volunteers, were among those included in the count, according to information obtained from the center...
...Cambridge count was conducted by three teams made up of volunteers from DHSP; street-out-reach staff from Bread and Jams and On the Rise, two local service providers; and staff from Professional Ambulance's cold-weather emergency programs, who also provided first...