Byline: Associated Press
The Census Bureau's special $2.9 million count last year of people sleeping outdoors and in shelters was so flawed that it is useless as a tool for designing programs to help the homeless, a congressional investigator said Thursday.
"The number has one purpose and one value," said L. Nye Stevens of the General Accounting Office. "It did add to the overall population count of the country. It does not have value for any other public purpose."
The Census Bureau said from the outset it had no intention of counting all the homeless in its March 1990 operation called S-Night. The undertaking counted 228,621 homeless on the streets …
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