On Tuesday evening about 20 Claremonters volunteered to search streets, alleyways, sidewalks, parks and other common areas to count the city’s unhoused population as part of the 2023 Greater Los Angeles Point-in-Time homeless count.

The count began at 8 p.m. at the Alexander Hughes Community Center, where materials and 15 service maps were distributed among 11 teams. The Courier was partnered with Claremont resident and volunteer Rachel Forester and her husband, George Ambrocio in service area three, which included the Village, south Foothill Boulevard between Towne and Dartmouth avenues, and areas along First Street and Indian Hill Boulevard. After a three-and-a-half-hour search yielded six unhoused people, the team returned to home base.