Facts/Figures

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://crrp41.doc.state.nc.us/docs/pubdocs/0007014.PDF

Homelessness Statistics by the United States Department of Health and Human Services:
http://www.samhsa.gov/Matrix/statistics_homeless.aspx

Other links and statistics on homelessness in the United States:

http://www.solutionsforamerica.org/thrivingneigh/homelessness.html

http://lahsc.org/wordpress/educate/statistics/united-states-homeless-statistics/

http://salt.claretianpubs.org/stats/homeless/home.html

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL30442.pdf