This state-of-the-art 43,000-square-foot facility will expand primary medical care, behavioral health care, and substance use treatment to 12,000 northern Nevadans, in addition to the 14,000 patients HOPES currently serves.
Nevada’s 15 rural counties also saw their largest numbers in the past decade, with slightly more than 400 people experiencing homelessness on the day the count took place.
Overall numbers of unhoused people across the state have increased, but experts say the point-in-time count doesn’t account for the complexities of homelessness and is a single annual snapshot within a community that changes every day.