The 2021 Guelph-Wellington (G-W) enumeration of homelessness was part of a coordinated Canada-wide count of sheltered and unsheltered individuals experiencing homelessness on a single night. Guelph-Wellington 2021 Everyone Counts was undertaken in collaboration with G-W homeless serving system staff and in partnership with the G-W Task Force for Poverty Elimination (GWPTF). For the first time, a unique identifier was integrated into the survey which allowed staff to identify and count individuals experiencing homelessness who did not complete the survey and were known to be staying in emergency or domestic violence shelters on October 20, 2021 as well as those actively homeless on the G-W By-Name-List (BNL) in October. The unique identifier was used to ensure no one was counted
more than once. It is important to emphasize that we still are not capturing the full extent of homelessness in our community.