The Point-in-Time numbers are the product of annual community-wide efforts each January to determine how many people are living in shelters and other temporary housing, or are unsheltered (living in cars, abandoned buildings, on the streets, or in other places […]
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Single Adults
Updated December 2023. How Many Single Adults Experience Homelessness? On a single night in January 2023: 463,590 single adults were homeless. 51 percent or 237,649 were unsheltered. 2020 marked the first time there were more individuals living unsheltered than in […]
Older Adults
Updated December 2023. How Many Older Adults Experience Homelessness? Age demographics were included in the annual Point-in-Time Count for the first time in January 2023. On a single night in 2023: 138,098 adults over the age of 55 were homeless. […]
HUD Releases 2023 AHAR Data: 12 Key Data Points to Understand the Current State of Homelessness in America
This was the primary takeaway from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 1, which was released on December 15. The AHAR Part 1 compiles data from Point-in-Time (PIT) Counts conducted […]
Youth and Young Adults
Updated December 2023. How Many Youth Are Homeless? On a single night in 2023: 34,703 unaccompanied youth were counted as homeless. Of those, 90.6 percent were between the ages of 18 to 24. The remaining 9.3 percent (or 3,240 unaccompanied […]