Clinician Patricia Moore and police officer Nicholas Langford check out an outdoor encampment during an annual national homeless tally in Middletown, N.Y., on Jan. 23, 2025. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times
Volunteers, police officers, and social service agency professionals teamed up on Jan. 23 to take a one-day count of homeless people in three urban centers of Orange County.
The annual local survey was part of a long-running national initiative called Point-in-Time Count by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).