CHENEY- Eastern Washington University's (EWU) urban and regional planning program presented 10 months of research at a community event last Wednesday contributing to the Point-in-Time Count- a county-wide census for Spokane's homeless population.

Daniel Ramos, a member of Spokane's Community Housing and Homing Services board, was searching for an academic component for this census and got in touch with Matthew Anderson, an associate professor and director of the urban and regional planning program at EWU.

Anderson had already been conducting research on homelessness and oversaw Eastern's...