Alameda County’s 2022 Point in Time count numbers have been released, and some cities like Oakland are seeing a jump in homelessness, the biennial data shows.

A point-in-time (PIT) count is done on a single day, capturing what the homeless population looks like at a moment in time. The project gets funding from Federal Housing and Urban Development grants.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.