From This Is Reno

Some estimates are said to be as high as 7,000 people living without a shelter, but official county number of homeless people, as of December is 1,436, but “most of those people do have a roof over their heads at the moment,” Washoe County’s Dana Searcy said. “We don’t have a very good system in our community right now for sharing all of our data.”

Searcy runs Washoe County’s Built for Zero program that is aiming to correct the problem, particularly by counting people by using their names, or a “by-name list.”