The Economic Consequences of Homelessness in The US

The 2017 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress: Part 1
Beds by Household Type, 2017
• Communities were asked to identify the
number of beds targeted to households with
adults and children (i.e., families), households
without children (i.e., adult-only households),
and households with only children.
• ES beds targeted families and adult-only
households in approximately equal proportions,
51 and 48 percent.
• TH beds were also evenly split, with 50 percent
dedicated to families and 49 percent to adultonly
households.
• RRH was initially designed to primarily serve
families. In recent years, RRH has been also
targeted to individuals, veterans, and youth. In
2017, nearly three-quarters of RRH beds (73%)
were targeted to people in families.
• Almost two-thirds (64%) of PSH beds were
targeted to adult-only households, while about
two-thirds (65%) of OPH beds were targeted to
families.
• Beds targeting child-only households were
rarer—only 4,042 beds in total—but were most
prevalent in ES projects.
EXHIBIT 7.3: Project Types for Homeless and Formerly Homeless People
SHELTER FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE
Emergency Shelter (ES): is a facility with the primary
purpose of providing temporary shelter for homeless
people
Transitional Housing (TH): typically provides
homeless people with up to 24 months of shelter and
supportive services
Safe Haven (SH): provides temporary shelter and
services to hard-to-serve individuals
PERMANENT HOUSING FOR FORMERLY
HOMELESS PEOPLE
Rapid Rehousing (RRH): is a housing model designed
to provide temporary housing assistance to people
experiencing homelessness, moving them quickly out
of homelessness and into permanent housing
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH): provides
long-term housing with supportive services for
formerly homeless people with disabilities, and often
those with chronic patterns of homelessness
Other Permanent Housing (OPH): provides housing
with or without services that is specifically for formerly
homeless people but that does not require people to
have a disability
EXHIBIT 7.4: Inventory of Beds
By Household Type, 2017
Beds for Adult-Only
Households
Beds for People in
Families
Beds for Child-Only
Households
Total Year-Round
Beds
# % # % # % # %
Emergency Shelter 133,344 48.0% 141,350 50.9% 2,843 1.0% 277,537 30.9%
Transitional Housing 59,294 49.3% 59,936 49.8% 1,019 0.8% 120,249 13.4%
Safe Haven 1,653 100.0% 0 0.0% 1,653 0.2%
Rapid Rehousing 24,893 26.6% 68,789 73.4% 36 0.0% 93,718 10.4%
Permanent Supportive Housing 227,523 64.3% 126,186 35.7% 91 0.0% 353,800 39.4%
Other Permanent Housing 17,969 34.5% 34,080 65.4% 53 0.1% 52,102 5.8%
Total Beds 464,676 51.7% 430,341 47.9% 4,042 0.4% 899,059 100%
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