Assessing and Addressing Homelessness

From: HUD USER News
 
Released last week by HUD, the first Annual Homeless
Assessment Report to Congress is the result of a
complex, four-year project to develop, collect, and
analyze standardized information on homeless persons
from a nationally representative sample of communities.
HUD is devoting extensive technical assistance resources
to helping localities improve methods of collecting this
data, making it possible to develop increasingly
accurate responses to the following questions:
 
o How many people are homeless on a given day in the
United States?
 
o How many people use emergency shelters or
transitional housing at some time during a three-
month period?
 
o Who is homeless?
 
o What is the nation's capacity to provide housing
for homeless persons?
 
o Where do homeless people receive shelter?
 
o What are the patterns of shelter use?
 
This initial report provides a baseline for developing a
comprehensive national picture of homelessness that will
permit strategic allocation of homeless assistance
funds, improve program operations, and inform national
policy aimed at reducing homelessness. The report can be
downloaded, at no cost,
at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/povsoc/annual_assess.html.
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