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Region 10 as defined by the IHCDA (Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority) is highlighted in red. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1zon3f9bVFom_-k8CXNOoAIm1QIkv7QQ&usp=sharing

Data from this chart is from HUD: https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/3031/pit-and-hic-data-since-2007/

Data for this chart is from the IHCDA (Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority): https://www.in.gov/ihcda/indiana-balance-of-state-continuum-of-care/hmis_data_portal/

Data from this chart is from HUD: https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/3031/pit-and-hic-data-since-2007/

Data for this chart is from the IHCDA (Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority): https://www.in.gov/ihcda/indiana-balance-of-state-continuum-of-care/hmis_data_portal/

Every January, the IHCDA (Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority) helps organize a PIT (point in time) count of people experiencing homelessness in the state of Indiana.

Released last week, the results from this year’s PIT count show a doubling of unsheltered people (aka the “street homeless”) in Monroe County’s region of Indiana, compared to the 2023 PIT count.

Monroe County is part of Region 10, which also includes Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Morgan and Owen counties. About 75 percent of the total homelessness count for Region 10 is contributed by Monroe County.

In raw numbers for Region 10, the number of unsheltered homeless people grew from 73, as measured in the 2023 PIT count, to 142 in 2024.

The total number people counted as homeless in Region 10 also grew, from 427 in 2023 to 456 in 2024. But that’s a 7 percent increase, compared to the 100 percent increase in the unsheltered count. Continue reading “2024 count: Doubling of ‘street homelessness’ in Monroe County’s region compared to 2023” →

The aerial image is from Monroe County’s parcel lookup system, from a flyover photograph taken on March 11, 2024.

On Monday this week, the city of Bloomington posted a 30-day notice to vacate the area at homeless encampments along the Rail Trail south of Country Club Drive and north of Gordon Pike.

That was a day before a storm blew through Monroe County, downing trees, powerlines and damaging several houses.

It will be the fourth significant encampment closure since the start of the year, when Bloomington mayor Kerry Thomson first took office. The first came in early January, at a city-owned property on the northwest corner of the intersection of Fairview Street and Patterson Drive. The second closure came at the end of January, on a wooded stretch of city-owned property behind Wheeler Mission.

The third encampment clearance came in early May on public and private property at the southwest edge of Switchyard Park. Continue reading “Bloomington posts 30-day deadline for encampment near Rail Trail, cites fire safety risks” →