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Homeless survey gets underway in Winnipeg

Hundreds of volunteers visited shelters Sunday night in an attempt to better understand how many people are homeless in Winnipeg.

About 300 volunteers counting city's homeless in shelters, transitional housing, on the streets

The new survey of Winnipeg's homeless population is the first of its kind.

Hundreds of volunteers visited shelters Sunday night in an attempt to better understand how many people are homeless in Winnipeg.

Three-hundred people are popping into emergency shelters and transitional housing locations across Winnipeg Sunday night and Monday. The goal is to put a number tohow many people are calling the streets and shelters home.

On Monday, the volunteers will go to breakfast programs, drop-in centres and churches. In the evening, they'll fan out across the inner-city to count people on the streets.

In 2013, The Homeless Hub, a research organization focused onCanada's homeless populations,estimated that about 30,000 people are living on the streets nationwide on any given night.

Until now, there has never been a formal survey to closely determine how many people are homeless in the city.

The survey gotunderway at 7 p.m. Sunday night.