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The 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress, Part 2, Claudia D. Solari, Alvaro Cortes, Meghan Henry, Natalie Matthews, Sean Morris, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane
The 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress, Part 2, Claudia D. Solari, Alvaro Cortes, Meghan Henry, Natalie Matthews, Sean Morris, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
This report is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is called The 2013 Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness: Part 1 of the 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress and was published in November 2013. The Part 1 report provides estimates of homelessness based on the Point-in-Time (PIT) count data gathered by communities throughout the country on a single night in January. The estimates are provided at the national-, state-, and CoC-levels. New to the 2013 AHAR is information on unaccompanied homeless children and youth and chronically homeless people in families.
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The 2014 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress: Part 1 Point In Time Counts, Mehan Henry, Alvaro Cortes, Azim Shivji, Katherine Buck, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane
The 2014 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress: Part 1 Point In Time Counts, Mehan Henry, Alvaro Cortes, Azim Shivji, Katherine Buck, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
In January 2014, 578,424 people were homeless on a given night. Most (69 percent) were staying in residential programs for homeless people, and the rest (31 percent) were found in unsheltered locations.
Nearly one-quarter of all homeless people were children under the age of 18 (23 percent or 135,701). Ten percent (or 58,601) were between the ages of 18 and 24, and 66 percent (or 384,122) were 25 years or older.
Homelessness declined by 2 percent (or 13,344 people) between 2013 and 2014 and by 11 percent (or 72,718) since 2007.