While an of­fi­cial cal­cu­la­tion will be done in June this year, of­fi­cials from the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices sus­pect that the num­ber of home­less per­sons may have de­creased in re­cent years.

Speak­ing with re­porters af­ter a site vis­it at the Min­istry’s as­sess­ment cen­tre and tem­po­rary hous­ing fa­cil­i­ty, South Quay, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day morn­ing, se­nior so­cial work spe­cial­ist Stacey Tou­s­saint said that ac­cord­ing to the most re­cent da­ta gath­ered in 2023, there were 624 home­less peo­ple na­tion­wide.

Of this fig­ure, 235 were in Port-of-Spain, St James, Wood­brook and Diego Mar­tin.