Housing advocates say the timing of this policy makes it particularly harsh. 'We've seen homelessness at record levels … we've never seen so much homelessness,' said Jessica Fenchel, vice president of adult behavioral health for Access Services, which does outreach to people without housing in several eastern Pennsylvania counties. The number of unhoused people across Montgomery County has risen by at least 118% from 2021 to 2022, according to the county's 2022 Point-in-Time (PIT) count. According to the PIT, as of January 2022, 568 individuals were sleeping in one of the county's emergency shelters (including hotel rooms paid for with public funding), transitional housing projects, or outdoors.

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