This post is co-authored by the Alliance’s Chandra Crawford, Program and Policy Analyst; and Mindy Mitchell, Director, Individual Homeless Adults. It is part of a series to support communities as they work on their 2018 NOFA applications. You can see […]
Category: Point in Time Counts
What Gets Measured Gets Managed
This guest post was written by Jill Khadduri, Senior Fellow and Principal Associate for Social and Economic Policy at Abt Associates. An old adage tells us, “What gets measured gets managed.” That’s why, beginning in the early 2000s, communities across the country […]
We Must Not Lose Momentum on Veteran Homelessness
Over the past several years, our nation’s progress on veteran homelessness has been one of the most important success stories in the effort to end homelessness. But earlier this month, an annual count of homelessness in the U.S. reminded us […]
Improving Accuracy in the 2017 Unsheltered PIT Count
In this webinar, Claudia Powell from the University of Arizona’s Southwest Institute for Research on Women and Brian Roccapriore from the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness discuss strategies and rationale for using sampling and extrapolation to improve the accuracy and […]
Interactive Map Explores Homelessness in Top Metro Areas
A look at the size of the homeless population and subpopulations in the natiobn's 25 largets metro areas using metro area boundaries and Continuums of Care Point in Time data from 2015.