

Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and its agency members (HUD, the U.S. Respondents if they had ever experienced homelessness and, if so, whether it had been in the past five years. 7 In that same year, the first longitudinal analysis, tracking changes in homelessness over time, was performed based The effort, referred to as “S-Night” (the “S” stood for both street and shelter 6), did not result in an estimate of the homeless population but introduced the notion of enumerating in every community rather than relying on sampling. Census Bureau as part of the 1990 census.

The next significant effort to enumerate homelessness at the national level was initiated by the U.S. 5 This finding helped elected officials, policymakers, program administrators, advocates, and researchers recognize that homelessness was an economic Person to live on the streets of New York City during the course of a year. Insights from the data that had implicationsįor instance, Dr. That required grant applicants to collect Were among the first cities to have local Of providers in 20 cities and yielded theĪssess the capacity of the shelter system. The characteristics of the homeless population. Summarizes the evolution in understandingĪnd local partners, principally Point-in-Time (PIT) counts, the Housing Services, is essential to identifying theĪccommodate differing local circumstances

