An annual point-in-time count found 219 children under the age of 12 and 209 young people between 13 and 24 living in Saskatoon without permanent shelter on a single night last October.
That’s a total of 428 people under the age of 24, which is more than 20 per cent of the 1,931 people enumerated, according to the City of Saskatoon.
“We do have a fairly broad reach. We are trying to find as many as possible. Generally across the country there’s the thought that it is an undercount in most situations,” Lesley Anderson, the city’s director of planning and development, said at a news conference on Monday.