SURREY — Newton BIA’s first homeless count has found 55 people living on the streets in the town centre alone.

They were identified over a three-day count this summer, said director Philip Aguirre.

“We need advocacy and you can’t have advocacy without real measurement,” Aguirre told the Now, noting Surrey’s last homeless count of 403 in 2014 didn’t include a single person in Newton.

“So I couldn’t use the previous count because it wasn’t accurate for Newton.”

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