Reports drop in chronic homelessness of 15%!
Is the drop real or imagined?
HUD reported that “last year, nearly 32,000 fewer persons lived on the nation’s streets and in emergency shelters. That’s according to a new report released today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that points to a 15 percent average yearly reduction in chronic homelessness since 2005. For the first time ever, HUD’s Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress is also able to report on the scope of homelessness in America over a full-year period.”
But the validity of the information is still an open question. NBC News 40 reported in an article entitled “HUD Reports Homelessness on Decline, Our area rising” by
Teresa Berry reported homelessness is on the rise in Atlantic County. ‘”Basically its not true we have more homeless people, this place is busting at the seams.” said Johnnie Bond a 3-year resident of the Atlantic City Rescue Mission should know.He said if the mission, “Had 50 more beds they would fill them.” To read this full story click here.
To read the full AHAR report click here.
The 2007 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR)
This is the third report in a series of reports on homelessness in the United States and the first to be based on a full year of Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) data reported by communities across the country. This 2007 report will provide a baseline for measuring changes in homelessness from one year to the next. The reports respond to a series of Congressional directives beginning with the FY 2001 HUD Appropriations Act. The 2007 AHAR is based on two data sources. The first source is data provided by all Continuums of Care (CoCs) as part of their 2007 HUD application for funding. The CoC application data contain information on sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons on a single night in January 2007. The data provide information on the number of homeless persons within particular subpopulations, such as persons who are chronically homeless, severely mentally ill, substance abusers, veterans, unaccompanied youth, and/or living with HIV/AIDS, as well as information on the national inventory of homeless shelter beds.
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