Officials say 4,025 homeless people are living in the Bluegrass. The Kentucky Housing Corporation released the results Tuesday.
That’s the number of people living on the streets, in emergency shelters or in other temporary housing. The agency coordinated a count in all communities other than Louisville and Lexington, where separate counts were done. They showed just over 1,000 homeless people in each of those cities.
Kentucky Housing Corporation Director Kathryn Peters says the overall number of homeless has gone down which she finds encouraging but “not significant.” She says a majority of people reported being homeless for the first time.