The hard numbers confirm what experts already knew about the homeless problem in the Fox Cities area – it’s getting worse.
When the temperature dives below zero local agencies say their beds fill up quickly.
A community needs assessment finds that the population being housed in a half-dozen area shelters has jumped by 40 percent over the last couple of years.
In 2017 the average number of people seeking help to get inside out of the cold was a little over two-thousand-a-night.
The study puts the latest figures at more than 28-hundred-a-night.
