Find homeless living outside - Number of people found

Often surveyors will be sent to an area where people "know" there are homeless persons, and a few or no people are actually found

May be because of the time of the year, or may be a mis-perception of extent of the problem in a particular area

Counts in areas where no one is found are a success, because it allows you to defend the count methodology; critics can't say "there are 2,000" homeless, when you only counted 700

If people are critical of the completeness of the count, give them a pile of forms and ask them to find the homeless (depends on use of identifiers)

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