Facts
* Wilder Research Center's "Homeless in Minnesota 2003" estimates that on 23 October 2003, the total number of homeless and precariously housed persons in Minnesota numbered 20,347

* ...roughly 1,000 individuals are turned away from shelter each night. Children and unaccompanied youth regularly account for nearly half of those sheltered and turned away...

* From 1991 to 2000, the percentage of employed homeless adults more than doubled from 19% to 41%...