Kansas City Homeless Count Spikes 170%

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More than 2,000 people are homeless in Kansas City at any one time. In the last seven years, that population has risen 170%. And among those who are chronically homeless in Kansas City, 95.7% are living outside without any kind of shelter, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s the highest percentage of any major city In the United States.

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KC says homeless population spiked 170%. It may try what worked in other cities

"This is an ambitious undertaking to transform our homeless response system," said Mary Owens, the deputy director of the Kansas City Department of Housing and Community Development

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