Number of people who used emergency shelters or housing provided by transitional programs at least once in the previous year.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. HUD’s estimates are based on data from the Homeless Management Information Systems.
HUD’s estimates reflect the number of persons in the fifty states and the District of Columbia who used shelters or transitional housing programs during the one-year period from October 1 through September 30 of the reference year. Estimates include an extrapolation adjustment to account for people whose jurisdictions do not yet participate in the Homeless Management Information Systems.
Age is based on a person’s first time in a shelter or transitional housing during the one-year reporting period.