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Unsheltered homelessness fell by 10 percent in two years, though the number of people “rough sleeping” without a tent or a vehicle has risen.

Of those, more than 250,000 were unsheltered.

The latest homeless count did show some long-awaited progress: The number of unsheltered homeless people — those who live outside instead of in a shelter or other temporary housing— dropped 5% in the county and 10% in the city.

The county’s total homeless population as of January, including sheltered and unsheltered people, was essentially unchanged from the year before, about 75,000.

In 2017, the annual homeless court found 105 people sleeping unsheltered on the city’s streets.