Andrea Johnson volunteers to help HUD count

2017 Jan 30

Andrea Johnson, of Conway, SC, is among nearly 50 Coastal Carolina University students who volunteered to help count the local homeless population earlier in the spring semester 2017 for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Point-In-Time (PIT) count helps to identify needs and allocate federal resources. The students, mostly from CCU's social inequality and race and ethnicity classes, visited 12 different shelters and places where the homeless gather, according to Stephanie Southworth, Ph.D., sociology lecturer.