The homeless population in Orange County, New York, has climbed to 380 as of early this year, according to preliminary point-in-time data. 
Point-in-time (PIT) is a mandatory annual count of sheltered and unsheltered people for communities nationwide receiving federal homeless grants. 
For Orange County, the homeless count is 12 percent higher than the previous year, though still lower than the pre-pandemic level. 
PIT was conducted in the county on Jan. 27 by over a dozen local nonprofits, police agencies, and hospitals under the lead of Continuum of Care (CoC). 
On that day, 315 people were counted in different kinds of shelters, and another 65 were found on the streets or out in the woods. …