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New Bedford's annual Point-In-Time Count begins this week, and volunteers are needed.

The New Bedford 2018 Point-In-Time Count will take place this coming Wednesday, January 24, and run for 24 hours, as volunteers take a count of the sheltered and unsheltered homeless living in New Bedford.

Volunteers have finished hand-counting the number of homeless people in New Bedford. Joseph Maia, coordinator with the New Bedford Office of Housing and Community Development says it will take some time to process all of the completed surveys, but he doesn't expect the total to be far off from last year's count of 338...