On January 31, one of our community health planners, Belen Seara who leads our housing work, was one of the 165 volunteers gathered in the early morning to count our homeless neighbors. This biennial count enables San Mateo County Human Services Agency to inform their programs and services to better serve this population. The final report will be released this summer. The latest report in 2017 estimated that there are 1,253 homeless people in San Mateo County.