myCentralJersey.com

By Sergio Bichao

1/27/2016

Nonprofit organizations and government agencies will spend Wednesday asking people on the streets and in shelters where they spent the night before as part of a statewide Point-in-Time Count of the homeless population.

Last year, the count found 10,211 homeless men, women and children on a single night, a decrease of 14 percent from 2014. Nationally, the numbers fell by 2 percent.

Of those in the Garden State, 974 people were unsheltered and spending the night in cars …

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