Request a workshop for your youth group to help them build safe relationships. Learn More Homeless: Who Counts? Last week, Arlington's Continuum of Care (CoC) participated in an annual Point-in-Time (PIT) Count of people experiencing homelessness in our community. The results of that count will be available later this year. In the meantime, it's important to understand what the numbers really mean. What is the Point-in-Time (PIT) Count? How many people experience homelessness each year? That depends on how you define homelessness, and different federal agencies have different definitions. Learn More The annual The Point-in-Time (PIT) Count follows the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's definition of homelessness, counting sheltered (in emergency shelter, transitional housing, and Safe Havens) and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January. Limitations of the PIT Count "The PIT Count is widely considered to be severe undercount of the homeless population." Read More "COVID-19-related health concerns disrupted counts of unsheltered people in 2021. Thus, data on this group will not be fully updated until late 2022 or early 2023, leaving a significant hole in available knowledge on homelessness." See Report "Matching the funding that comes from Congress to the minimum amount [of people experiencing homelessness] doesn't match the need for the amount of resources that groups actually have." Watch Video In the News How the pandemic threw fuel on a growing housing movement "The pandemic hasn't just accelerated the housing crisis. It has changed the way the entire country thinks about housing: A home became not merely a commodity to be bought and sold on the market; all of a sudden, it was a lifesaving necessity to ward off contagion and death." Read More New report shows a surging rental market, starkly divided by race and renter incomes "The report indicates that some of the rental rebound reflects the lack of inventory in the for sale market, which has kept many higher-income renters from buying homes. At the same time, however, many lower-income households, and especially lower-income households of color, still struggle to pay the rent." Learn More "All of these measures have provided a backstop for many renter households that could well have lost their housing." "Trans people aren't just vulnerable to sexual assault because we're hated; we're vulnerable because discrimination places a disproportionate number of trans folks in situations—like homelessness or survival sex work—where sexual assault is far more common. The more legislative and structural discrimination there is against trans people, the more assault there will be." To help trans sexual assault survivors, we have to understand power "Most of the available data on sexual violence does not include trans people. The categories are implicitly cissexist, classifying every victim as 'male' or 'female' with no room for elaboration. Other studies remain vague in their conclusions. (...) However, the data we do have all points to one conclusion: trans people are being sexually assaulted at staggering rates." Read More Officers who handled Gabby Petito murder case should be placed on probation, says new report "A number of jarring statistics show Officers Pratt and Robbins weren't the exception but the rule when it comes to law enforcement's inability to handle domestic disputes." Read More Drive-Thru Deeds │ Fridays 11-1 Deliver urgently needed supplies Swing by our office on Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to drop off items, or purchase items from our Amazon wish list and ship them directly to our offices. Here are our most urgent needs this week: Laundry Detergent Pods Tall Kitchen Trash Bags Solid White Linens (Bath Towel Sets, Comforters, Pillows) Vacuums Kitchen Sponges Ziplocs (Gallon and Sandwich Sizes) Thank you for your support! Order Online Do you need support? Do you know someone else who might? Call Doorways to speak with an advocate any time. 24-Hour Domestic & Sexual Violence Hotline: 703-237-0881 New to Doorways? Welcome! Learn more about: Volunteering Giving Fundraising Doorways | P.O. Box 100185, Arlington, VA 22210 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!