https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/01/09/covid-cancels-delays-bay-area-homeless-counts/

Continuing a decades-old tradition, hundreds of Bay Area volunteers were expected to wake in the wee hours of the morning this month to meticulously count every person they spotted sleeping on park benches or in doorways, tents and cars.

But the biennial point-in-time count, a crucial census that influences everything from federal funding to the management of local homelessness programs, won’t happen on schedule this year — if at all.