Greenville to count homeless population for first time since COVID, and you can help
“HUD’s definition of homelessness is more narrow than GHA’s or the U.S. Department of Education’s definition as it does not include those living in motels or sleeping on a friend’s couch.
McLarty said they’re expecting to see more people living in vehicles this year, citing Graham Pruss, an anthropologist who studies homelessness and vehicle residency.
According to Pruss, systemic displacement leads to higher vehicle residency — and Greenville has seen the displacement of many Black and low-income residents downtown and in surrounding neighborhoods over the past decade, U.S. Census data shows.”