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Jefferson County presents homelessness dashboard as cooling center and outreach use rises
Summary
County housing and social services staff updated the Health & Human Services Committee on a new dashboard tracking emergency housing, cooling centers and outreach. Data Jan–Aug 2025 show sustained shelter use, rising cooling-center utilization and dozens of individuals engaged by street outreach teams.
County housing staff presented a new homelessness data dashboard and summer program update to the Jefferson County Health & Human Services Committee, saying the tool will help measure use of cooling centers, emergency placements and street outreach and guide future planning.
Jillian Ritter, director of housing, and Karen Markham, RDSS commissioner, told the committee the dashboard aggregates service data for the county's emergency housing programs from Jan. 1 through Aug. 31, 2025. Ritter said the Salvation Army's overnight capacity was used about 65% of nights in May and had risen to about 88% by late…
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