According to the CRS Report for Congress, “There is no single federal definition of homelessness. However, most federal programs for the homeless define a homeless individual as a person who lacks a fixed and nighttime residence or whose primary residence is a supervised public or private shelter, designed to provide temporary living accommodations, an institution accommodating persons intended to be institutionalized, or a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.”
Homlessness statistics in North Carolina:
http://www.nchomeless.org/
Homelessness Statistics by the United States Department of Health and Human Services:
http://www.thrall.org/special/homelessness.html
Other links and statistics on homelessness in the United States:
http://www.solutionsforamerica.org/thrivingneigh/homelessness.html
