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At @KCCouncil committee meeting, Jeanne Kohl-Welles is questioning sharp drops in chronic homeless count, and people with behavioral health and substance use disorders in 2019 point-in-time count Kira Zylstra of @allhomekc says these results are very dependent on survey results

Council Member @KohlWelles asks if there are plans to change methodology, given the yearly questions about data and cautions about how point-in-time is not scientific, is an estimate, etc. Zylstra of @allhomekc says it's not perfect, all communities struggle with these questions

Council Member @KohlWelles asks if City of Seattle's "sweeps" of encampments are driving people into more visible places, contributing to a perception that numbers are going up. Zylstra says that's a factor every year.

.@KingCountyWA staff now updating council on efforts to create unified, regional governance around homelessness They're exploring example of Portland/Multnomah County which combined homeless services in 2015 Noted that Multnomah has eight cities, compared to King County's 39

After 32 minutes of this briefing, I think what they're saying is that they don't yet have any idea what form/structure a unified city/county homeless response system would take

Uttered by staff during this meeting: - “Overlay” - “Scaling up” - “Rightsizing” This is just color to demonstrate what kind of meeting this is