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Title: The Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2007
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Abstract: The u.s.Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to present this national report on homelessness in America. The report was developed in response to Congressional directives that began in 2001 and charged the Department with assisting communities to implement local Homeless Management Information Systems or HMIS. J The primary goals in promoting local HMJS implementation are to improve the delivery of services to homeless clients and to increase understanding of their characteristics and needs at the local and national levels. According to Senate Report 109- I09, "The implementation of this new system would allow the Department to obtain meaningful data on the nation's homeless population and develop arulUal reports through an Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) .,,2 This first Annual Homeless Assessment Report is a culmination of several years of effort on the part of local communities and HUD to improve the collection of data on homeless persons. It is based on two local data sources. The first is HMIS data on sheltered homeless persons - that is, persons who used emergency and transitional housing - at any time during a three-month period, February to April 2005. The data were obtained from a nationally representative sample of communities. The second source is data on sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons provided by all Continuums ofCare (CoCs) as part of their 2005 HUD application for funding. The data are based on one-night counts of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons conducted in communities across the country in January 2005. An important advantage of the point-in-time count data is that it provides information for this report on unsheltered homeless persons - those who do not use shelters . . .
Url: https://www.huduser.gov/Publications/pdf/Ann_hmlss_rpt_508.pdf
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Authors: Jackson, Alphonso
Publisher: US Department of Housing & Urban Development
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Poverty and Welfare
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