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A London research team will use a combination of artificial intelligence and traditional fieldwork in the search for a better way to count the number of homeless people in Canada.
That will help agencies and governments across the country assist more people, especially the “invisible homeless” who have little contact with services, said Cheryl Forchuk, assistant scientific director at the Lawson Health Research Institute and a Western University professor.
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Forchuk has been doing research on homelessness for more than two decades, but a major barrier to that research is the lack of numbers.
London researchers look to AI to help count homeless population
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LONDON, ONT. A research team led by Lawson Health Research Institute (LHRI) announced a new project on Wednesday, that aims to better identify who is experiencing homelessness across Canada. “The homeless experience varies significantly across Canada, especially within different rural and remote regions of the country,” says Dr. Cheryl Forchuk, assistant scientific director at Lawson. The Homelessness Counts research project aims to identify people in the homeless population that aren’t initially visible. LHRI says that many communities rely on shelter data, but not all regions have shelters and not all people who are experiencing homeless use shelters when available.