Pulse Quarter 2
Draft data due Wednesday, August 4
Final data due Wednesday, August 11
The Homelessness Data Exchange (HDX)
The Homelessness Data Exchange is an on-line tool designed to allow Homeless Continuums of Care
to submit data to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for:
These reports are based primarily on data collected and maintained in Homeless Management Information
Systems (HMIS).
Users who are the designated contact for submitting their community data may login using their HMIS.info account.
The Housing Inventory Count (HIC)
The Housing Inventory Count collects information about all of the beds and units in each Continuum
of Care homeless system, categorized by five Program Types.
- Emergency Shelter: Total number of emergency shelter beds and units that are designated to serve
people who are homeless and are recognized as part of the formal homeless system.
- Transitional Housing: Total number of transitional housing beds and units designated to serve people
who are homeless and are recognized as part of the formal homeless system.
- HPRP Homeless Assistance (new for 2010): Total number of HPRP Homeless Assistance beds and units
occupied on the night the annual inventory.
- Safe Haven: Total number of Safe Haven beds and units that satisfy HUD’s standards, as identified
in the 2009 NOFA.
- Permanent Supportive Housing: Total number of permanent supportive housing beds and units.
The Housing Inventory Count also includes information about unmet need.
Point-in-Time Homeless Persons Count (PIT)
The Point-in-Time Count provides a count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons from either
the last biennial count or a more recent annual count. Counts are based on:
- Number of persons in households without children;
- Number of persons in households with at least one adult and one child; and
- Number of persons in households with only children. This includes only persons age 17 or under,
including unaccompanied youth, adolescent parents and their children, adolescent siblings, or other
household configurations composed only of children.
Counts are further broken down into subpopulation categories including counts of persons who are
chronically homeless, persons with severe mental illness, chronic substance abusers, veterans,
persons with HIV/AIDS, victims of domestic violence and unaccompanied youth.
Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR)
The Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) is a report to the U.S. Congress on the extent and
nature of homelessness in America. The report is prepared by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) and provides nationwide estimates of homelessness, including information about
the demographic characteristics of homeless persons, service use patterns, and the capacity to
house homeless persons. The report is based primarily on Homeless Management Information Systems
(HMIS) data about persons who experience homelessness during a 12-month period.
To read previous AHAR's or learn more about the AHAR data collection process, visit one of the
AHAR resources listed on the right.
The Homelessness PULSE Project (PULSE)
The Homelessness PULSE project is intended to help the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) gain a better understanding of the impact of the current economic crisis on homelessness.
This understanding relies heavily on collecting up-to-date information on how counts of homeless
persons may be changing as the crisis unfolds.
The PULSE Project provides point-in-time shelter counts of homeless persons that are served on
a specified quarterly date and also a count of “newly” homeless persons served in the reporting
quarter. The quarterly reports that have been submitted to HUD are being closely examined across
a number of federal agencies. The HDX Pulse reporting feature is expected to be operational as
of July 1, 2010.