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 […]
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 […]
Washington, D.C. — HUD recently released its 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR): Part 1. The report provides an annual Point-in-Time (PIT) estimate of the number of people experiencing homelessness in the U.S., offering a snapshot of both sheltered and […]
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. […]
Updated December 2023. How Many People Experience Chronic Homelessness? On a single night in January 2023: There were 143,105 homeless individuals with chronic patterns of homelessness. That is nearly 22 percent of the total population of homeless individuals. Nearly 65 percent […]