Regina homelessness: Point in Time count to update homelessness stats [Video]

Over one hundred volunteers gathered at the Mamaweyatitan Centre on Tuesday night to help conduct the 2024 Point In Time (PIT) Count.

The count is intended to gather data surrounding Regina’s unhoused population. Volunteers are sent out in groups to speak with community members and conduct anonymous surveys, which are then passed on to the federal government to help make financial decisions for community funding.

The numbers prove useful to the municipal government.

“It allows you, again to plan and to advocate for expansion of shelter space, expansion of supportive housing and treatment beds … That data that comes back in is unbelievably valuable when it comes to planning and advocating and understanding how to keep going with what it is we managed to build over the last four years,” Regina Mayor, Sandra Masters said.

The Regina city council recently moved forward on plans for a new shelter space located at 1600 Halifax Street.

While the financial outcomes …