# Citation: Pierce County's Unsheltered Homeless Population Jumped 59% in One Year. The Data Points to a Predictable Pipeline.

## BibTeX
@misc{watchtower-pierce-county-s-unsheltered-homeless-population-jumped-59-in-one-year-the-data-poi,
  title = {Pierce County's Unsheltered Homeless Population Jumped 59% in One Year. The Data Points to a Predictable Pipeline.},
  author = {Vanguard Civic Technology Research Team},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Watchtower, Arafat for Congress},
  url = {https://arafatforcongress.org/watchtower/stories/pierce-county-s-unsheltered-homeless-population-jumped-59-in-one-year-the-data-poi},
  note = {The 2024 Point-in-Time count, the federally required annual census of unsheltered people, found 59.4 percent more Pierce County residents sleeping outside than the same count one year earlier. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, known locally as JBLM, is a major federal footprint in a county with a severely constrained rental market and a documented affordable-unit shortage. The numbers create a federal accountability question the official response has not caught up to.}
}

## RIS
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PB  - Watchtower, Arafat for Congress
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N1  - The 2024 Point-in-Time count, the federally required annual census of unsheltered people, found 59.4 percent more Pierce County residents sleeping outside than the same count one year earlier. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, known locally as JBLM, is a major federal footprint in a county with a severely constrained rental market and a documented affordable-unit shortage. The numbers create a federal accountability question the official response has not caught up to.
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## APA 7
Vanguard Civic Technology Research Team. (2026). Pierce County's Unsheltered Homeless Population Jumped 59% in One Year. The Data Points to a Predictable Pipeline.. Watchtower, Arafat for Congress. https://arafatforcongress.org/watchtower/stories/pierce-county-s-unsheltered-homeless-population-jumped-59-in-one-year-the-data-poi

## MLA 9
"Pierce County's Unsheltered Homeless Population Jumped 59% in One Year. The Data Points to a Predictable Pipeline.." Watchtower, Arafat for Congress, 2026-08-02, https://arafatforcongress.org/watchtower/stories/pierce-county-s-unsheltered-homeless-population-jumped-59-in-one-year-the-data-poi.

## Plain text
Vanguard Civic Technology Research Team (2026). "Pierce County's Unsheltered Homeless Population Jumped 59% in One Year. The Data Points to a Predictable Pipeline.." Watchtower, Arafat for Congress. https://arafatforcongress.org/watchtower/stories/pierce-county-s-unsheltered-homeless-population-jumped-59-in-one-year-the-data-poi