The Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) report highlights data focused on people living in homeless services system shelters throughout 2019 and 2020. This timeframe paints a picture of the status quo both immediately before and after the pandemic began. These […]
Category: Point in Time Counts
Latest Federal Data Provides a Valuable, but Incomplete, View of Homelessness in the First Year of COVID-19
Although Several Questions Persist, Decreases in Sheltered Homelessness Suggest the Positive Impacts of Federal Relief Resources and Homelessness System Efforts The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today released the 2021 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress […]
Conducting the 2022 Point-in-Time Count During the Omicron Surge
However, the Omicron variant is dramatically increasing the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide, causing some CoCs to revisit their plans for collecting this critical data. Many communities did not conduct an unsheltered count last year due to the pandemic and […]
Disruptions to the 2021 PiT Count: Working to Fill Data Gaps
Homeless services systems will be sorting through the impacts of the pandemic for some time to come. Disruptions to the 2021 Point-in-Time (PiT) Count are a part of the story: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sanctioned […]
Data Snapshot: Comparing Point in Time Counts between 2019 and 2020
The 2020 Point in Time count reflected a 2.2 percent increase in overall homelessness compared to 2019. However, states and Continuums of Care (CoCs) showed significant variation in the changes to their overall homelessness counts, as well as the counts […]