Counting and iPods

Are you homeless and use one of the many colored apple ipods?

More and more in the last two years I've been seeing public uses of technology by more people experiencing homelessness than 'homies' or business people when walking the streets of Jacksonville.

My take: either they're more savvy than 'homies' and local business people...OR...there's more of them that aren't being admitted to after the last 'Homeless Count'.

The thing about the count that gets me is nobody admits just how 'off' it really is. While local 'counters' and volunteers did appear to attempt to find and engage more in the past, they still aren't bellying up to the realities.

In my opinion Jacksonville has at this moment approxiametely 18,732 people experiencing homelessness. Give or take 5, depending if you use the McKinney-Vento Act standards or HUD definition rules.

Don't ask how I know the numbers, that's classified...just as much as what's really going on that they don't want you to know.

...you figure out who 'they' are.