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ORANGE COUNTY'S HOUSING WAGE IS HIGH <br />COMPARED TO PEERS' <br />$30 <br />�G <br />7p <br />M <br />Homeless Point -in -Time Count <br />MINIMUM WAGE EARNER MUST WORK 110 HOURS <br />PER WEEK TO AFFORD RENT° <br />The Homeless Point -in -Time Count and Survey is conducted every two years during the last part of <br />January. The 2015 Point -in -Time Count revealed that the number of unsheltered homeless individuals <br />increased since the 2013 count. A total of 2,201 unsheltered homeless individuals were found to be <br />living on the streets of Orange County compared to the 1,678 individuals counted in 2013. This <br />represents a 5% increase compared to the 2013 count. Of these 2,201 unsheltered individuals, a large <br />majority (71 %) are single, adult men. Though single, adult men are overrepresented in the unsheltered <br />homeless count, they have little access to transitional shelters, emergency shelters, and permanent <br />supportive housing programs that are often designed to meet the needs of families, single women with <br />children, those who have experienced domestic violence, the chronically homeless, orthose living with <br />HIV /AIDS. <br />zMK <br />2015 <br />FAIR MARKET AENT(MONTtAY) <br />ONEAeOKOO1 <br />$1,312 <br />$4238 <br />TWOOZOROOM <br />IOM4 <br />$E6++4 <br />THREE$EOROOM <br />$2,300 <br />$z260 <br />ANOUN$AHOM EHOU1WITHONE <br />$ 41E <br />:$ 40 <br />M *MUH WASS EAiNEP CAN AFFORD <br />ELY PAY 04 RMT 04ONU AY) <br />NNNEEROFMWASPERWEEKA <br />m126 <br />410 <br />MBd MQM WAGE EARNEbM"T <br />-. iWPKIC AFFORD AONF,AEd ROW <br />- APARtMMt <br />The Homeless Point -in -Time Count and Survey is conducted every two years during the last part of <br />January. The 2015 Point -in -Time Count revealed that the number of unsheltered homeless individuals <br />increased since the 2013 count. A total of 2,201 unsheltered homeless individuals were found to be <br />living on the streets of Orange County compared to the 1,678 individuals counted in 2013. This <br />represents a 5% increase compared to the 2013 count. Of these 2,201 unsheltered individuals, a large <br />majority (71 %) are single, adult men. Though single, adult men are overrepresented in the unsheltered <br />homeless count, they have little access to transitional shelters, emergency shelters, and permanent <br />supportive housing programs that are often designed to meet the needs of families, single women with <br />children, those who have experienced domestic violence, the chronically homeless, orthose living with <br />HIV /AIDS. <br />