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The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, Part 2

Claudia D Solari, Azim Shivji, Tanya de Sousa, Rian Watt, Mark Silverbush, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P Culhane

November 2, 2017
HMIS and AHAR
Population Estimation, Demographic Composition and Trends
Abstract

This report is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is called The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness, and was published in November 2016. The Part 1 report provides estimates of homelessness based on PIT count data gathered by communities throughout the country in late January. The estimates are provided atthe national-, state-, and CoC-levels.Part 2 of the 2016 AHAR builds on the Part 1 report by adding 1-year estimates of sheltered homelessness based on data from HMIS. The HMIS estimates provide detailed demographic information about people who use the nations emergency shelters and transitional housing projects during a 12-month period.

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