The fourth Saskatoon PIT Homelessness Count—and first as part of Employment and Social Development Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS) national coordinated PIT count—including an indoor and outdoor enumeration, a streets needs assessment, and public perception survey, was held in Saskatoon on April 18, 2018.

The 2018 count built on the learning from Saskatoon counts in 2008, 2012, and 2015, while adapting to therequirements of HPS’s second coordinated PIT count. Using a “snapshot” approach to collect the data, the PIT count aimed to identify chronically homeless (individuals who are currently homeless and have been homeless for six months or more in the past year) and episodically homeless (individuals who are currently homeless and have experienced three or more episodes of homelessness in the past year.