HUD’s Annual Homeless Assessment Report <\/a>provides estimates of the number of homeless persons from a point-in-time count on a single night in January 2010 and 12-month data from the Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) on the sheltered homeless.  Key findings for 2010 are:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7         <\/span><\/span><\/span>The number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night increased by 1.1% over the last year: from 643,067 in January 2009 to 649,917 in January 2010.  Increases were due to increased numbers of unsheltered homeless persons.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7         <\/span><\/span><\/span>A total of 79,446 family households, including 241,951 persons in families, were homeless on a single night in January 2010.  Nearly 80% of families were sheltered and 21% were unsheltered.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7         <\/span><\/span><\/span>More than 1.59 million people spent at least one night in an emergency shelter or transitional housing from October 2009 to September 2010, an increase of 2.2% from 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7         <\/span><\/span><\/span>Close to two-thirds of sheltered persons were individuals (65%) and one-third were persons in families (35%).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7         <\/span><\/span><\/span>There were almost 94,000 more sheltered homeless persons in families in 2010 as there were in 2007, and almost 72,000 fewer sheltered homeless individuals. <\/span><\/p>\n

More data on homelessness<\/a> in the United States.
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HUD’s Annual Homeless Assessment Report provides estimates of the number of homeless persons from a point-in-time count on a single night in January 2010 and 12-month data from the Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) on the sheltered homeless.  Key findings for 2010 are: \u00b7         The number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night increased…<\/p>\n

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