Volunteers will be going around the City tonight to do a point-in-time count.

30 communities across Canada will be completing the count which provides communities with information about their homeless population. Committee member Matthew Boscariol says there are many benefits to the count.

“If we’re looking to build cities across Canada, specifically here in Thompson, it’s more of an understanding of how this data fluctuates over time; where do we need to focus more of our financial, our social, and our environmental resources into helping out this specific cohort in Thompson.”

The count starts tonight and goes into tomorrow. Last year’s count revealed 126 people identify themselves as homeless.