Hundreds of students in Fayette County are homeless, according to a new survey.

Central Kentucky Housing Homeless Initiative, the Catholic Action Center and Street Voice Council conducted the survey.

The groups also announced a new campaign give kids a home to address the problem.

We speak about inner city council, how we are thriving in Lexington.

But if there is one child who is homeless that is not thriving.

The purpose of this report was to obtain a better understanding of the current conditions of homelessness in Lexington.

We found that there were 2410 people that we met experiencing homelessness.

So far this year.

Since August the 16th, first day of school.

We have 453 children that are displaced in our communities.

We have 335 that are doubled up.

We have 44 currently in hotels and motels.

We have 86 that are in shelters or transitional housing.

We have unsheltered, which is inappropriate housing.

We have 18 and we have 19 unaccompanied youth that are displaced in our community.

I've done street outreach work here in Lexington for the last five years, two years with Lexington Rescue Mission.

It's the worst I've seen since I've started.

I have personal experiences being a mother homeless with my child on the streets.

And so these statistics is undeniable.

My mother told me that if you have facts and documentation, no one can dispute that.

And something must be done in the city of Lexington.

The McKinney Vento Act is a federal law that is in the entire United States that we must address our homeless children.

We must ensure that they get the same equal education as their peers.

Our primary goal is to reduce the barriers to their learning and if you don't have a place to sleep, we don't have a bed to sleep in.

If you're not getting the proper nutrition, if you are not have to have clean clothes to wear, then that's a barrier.

And there's no quick fixes to homelessness.

Each individual and each family has their own story and the cold winter months during the snow.

Living people living in cars.

Places where none of us would ever want to live.

The number of even temporary housing or transitional housing and motel rooms.

A lot of those programs are gone now.

I think that we had everything that was because of COVID, all that impact and all that extra help which we all are aware of is gone.

We're asking the community, as we did in 2016 and 2017, to come forth.

This will be a simple way that people can give funds that will go directly to housing the children of the McKinney Vento program.

We are all concerned for those who are experiencing homelessness in our city, and we know that it takes all of us together to see and hear and deal with this multifaceted problem.

It's our responsibility.

And homelessness has no face because it's them today.

It could be us tonight.

This street survey shows more homelessness in Lexington than a housing and Urban Development count earlier this year.

Mayor Linda Gordon says the two accounts used different methods.