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-5- Responses from Ail Other A~encies (?.24): Primary service needs for this group were: emergency financial assistance, 98 (73%); affordable housing, 53 (39%); employment and better paying employment, 49 (36%); emergency shelter, 40 (30%); helping finding affordable housing, 37 (27%). Emergency assistance was provided to 72 of 98 respondents in need (73%) and an additional 26 (27%) were referred to other agencies for financial assistance. Only 9 of 98 (9%) were recorded as "no available resource" for emergency financial assistance. The most significant areas in which resources were not available in relation to needs of this group were as follows: affordable housing, 28 of 53 in need (53%); employment and better paying employment, 19 of 49 in need (39%); emergency shelter, 14 of 40 in need (35%); help finding affordable housing, 14 of 37 in need (38%); and, local transportation, 21 of 24 in need (88%). SOME CONCLUSIONS Problems with homelessness affect significant numbers of persons in the community. In the three months of the survey, 500 persons were represented in the 274 survey responses. Two populations which differed in some significant ways were seen in the survey. Survey responses from the Winter Night Shelter more frequently represented individual adults who were overwhelmingly males. The All Other Agencies group consisted primarily of family units consisting mainly of adults and children with significantly more adult females than males. o 176 children were involved. 85% were under 10 years of age and 49% were five years old or younger. Among the Ail Other Agencies responses (which were likely to be families with children) 23 reported living in vehicles, abandoned buildings or in the streets.