In a 2016 State of Homelessness in Canada report, it was estimated that at least 235,000 Canadians experience homelessness in any given year. The number is undoubtedly much higher because many who are homeless do not come into contact with the community organizations that operate shelters and provide transitional housing. The "hidden homeless" are those people who are left to seek shelter in abandoned houses, on friend's and family's couches, and in their cars. Now, thanks to a study funded by the University's Faculty of Arts' Community Engagement & Research Centre (CERC), the scope of the plight of Regina's hidden homeless may finally emerge.