ROCKFORD (WREX) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is giving a grant to track the homeless population in the city of Rockford. Tuesday night, the Rockford City Council’s Finance ...

Every January, volunteers from homeless organizations across the country comb their cities to tally their number homeless residents. It’s called a Point-In-Time Count, or PIT Count. Due to dangerous ...

Montgomery County Homeless Coalition plans to launch a Homeless Management Information System for the county July 9. The system will help the coalition to better define and serve the homeless. On Jan.

The commenters express strong reservations with the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) proposed guidelines for implementation of Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS).[1] We ...

In 2001, at the behest of national advocates for the homeless, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to devise a more precise way of counting America’s homeless ...

As the more patient folks in the audience may already know, my lengthy feature article this week charts the growth of the Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) database, a federally-mandated ...

Billions of dollars have been spent on efforts to get homeless people off the streets in California, but outdated computer systems with error-filled data are all too often unable to provide even basic ...

“Because you can’t manage what you don’t measure,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in his State of the State address last week that California “will establish a unified homelessness data system to capture ...

Up to 10 percent of homeless people are thought to have a pet, providing companionship and security but also making them unable to use services where pets aren't allowed. (Photo: David Kidd) ...

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A homeless encampment near downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 21, 2023. A five-year-old Anchorage program called Home for Good, utilizing well-evidenced strategies, has achieved striking results.