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US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)

Overview

The US Department of Housing & Urban Development is mandated by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to conduct the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR). It is conducted by coordinating with local Continuums of Care (CoCs) to perform Point-in-Time (PIT) counts of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons, typically conducted on a single night in January, along with Housing Inventory Counts (HIC) to collect data on available housing resources.

A Continuum of Care (CoC) is a local or regional planning body that coordinates housing and services funding locally for homeless families and individuals. The Continuum of Care (CoC) program is managed by HUD.

Key Attributes

Geographic CoverageUnited States
Entity LevelState, Continuum of Care
Release FrequencyReleased annually in December; survey is conducted in January of that year.
History2007 onwards

Cybersyn Products

Tables above are available in the following Cybersyn data products:

Sample Queries

Change in state-level homelessness

Evaluate the annual change in overall homelessness per state.

SELECT
geo.geo_name,
ts.variable_name,
ts.date,
ts.value,
ts.unit,
ROUND((ts.value / LAG(ts.value, 1) OVER (PARTITION BY ts.geo_id, ts.variable_name ORDER BY ts.date) - 1) * 100, 2) AS yoy_change
FROM cybersyn.housing_urban_development_timeseries ts
LEFT JOIN cybersyn.geography_index geo
ON ts.geo_id = geo.geo_id
WHERE
geo.level = 'State'
AND variable_name = 'Overall Homeless'
QUALIFY date = (SELECT MAX(date) FROM cybersyn.housing_urban_development_timeseries)
ORDER BY yoy_change DESC;

Disclaimers

The data in this product is sourced from US Department of Housing & Urban Development.

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