Mercy House

Larry Haynes & Ed Clarke

In today’s Orange County Register, Executive Director of Mercy House Larry Haynes and Ed Clarke, associate professor of sociology and chair, department of anthropology/sociology at Vanguard University, discuss the upcoming Point-in-Time count to be conducted for the City of Costa Mesa with reporter Jim Overly. A Point-in-Time count is a single, unduplicated count of homeless individuals and families in the area.

The survey will be conducted on Wed., Sept. 28, with a followup survey Thursday morning. The survey will be conducted primarily by students of Vanguard University.

The study follows the Costa Mesa City Council’s unanimous vote Tuesday night to accept a $560,237 federal grant that will help struggling families stay in their homes, that will be managed by Mercy House and SPIN.

Read the full story in the The Orange County Register: Locals fanning out to count homeless men and women.