Recently I have been working on the issues of homelessness we face in our community and went downtown to talk to some folks about the issues they see and experience. What I ran into was a group of kids sleeping in downtown Eugene.

Lane County Public Health has released it’s 2018 point in time count data. The annual one night homeless count is for sheltered and unsheltered people. After a consistent decrease of homeless youth since 2010, the numbers have increased the past two years.

The numbers reported on homeless youth has officials concerned, please take a look.