Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove expects homeless numbers to rise during upcoming count
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CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Mayor Ken Popove says he expects there will be more unhoused people enumerated during an upcoming homeless count than what the City of Chilliwack learned in the last census in 2023.
Mayor Popove told 89.5 JR Country Morning host Glen Slingerland Thursday morning (Oct. 10) that the federal government has funded a Point-in-Time (PiT) count currently underway.
The federal government says the counts are a community-level census of sheltered and unsheltered homelessness. It also provides a national picture of homelessness.
“This comes out of the federal government,” Mayor Popove told Slingerland Thursday morning. “We did a homeless count last year, but it’s been mandated for us to do it from the feds. There’s some funding that comes our way to do this. I went to an event last night (Wednesday) to bless the folks that are out there doing the work. It was at Shxwhá:y Village.”
