Ohio Census workers to visit homeless camps
CINCINNATI (AP) — U.S. Census workers will get help from deputized social workers as they visit Cincinnati area homeless camps for this year’s national count.
Census takers have been to shelters, soup kitchens and other places serving the homeless, and plan to go out in the early morning hours Wednesday to dozens of places where people gather for the night.
Executive Director Josh Spring of the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless says outreach workers have been letting homeless people know the count was coming, so they wouldn’t be surprised by the visitors.
The sworn-in social workers will be bound by privacy laws.
Similar counts are going on across the nation, with everything from federal funding to congressional representation potentially at stake.