homeless count

More than 100 volunteers are striving this week to count the number of homeless people in Duval, Clay and Nassau counties.

Seventy-one percent of the people in an annual homeless count were experiencing homelessness for the first time — often because they couldn't afford their rent.

Changing Homelessness, the lead homeless prevention agency for Clay, Duval and Nassau counties, is seeking volunteers for an annual federally mandated survey of unsheltered people in the three counties.

The Jacksonville nonprofit Changing Homelessness will conduct its first-ever summertime homeless census next week.One volunteer participating in the count…