US HUD segments homeless populations into three dimensions:
- sheltered vs. unsheltered homelessness
- chronic homelessness, where "chronic" is defined as a person with a disability who is "continuously homeless for one year or more, or has experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the last three years where the combined length of time homeless on those occasions is at least 12 months."
- individuals ("households that were not composed of both adults and children") and families
As of mid-December, the US point-in-time counts of those were:[1]
More than half of all counted unsheltered chronically homeless individuals in the United States in December were in California (44,120 of 78,615; 56% of total unsheltered chronically homeless, 7.6% of total US homeless).
- sheltered vs. unsheltered homelessness
- chronic homelessness, where "chronic" is defined as a person with a disability who is "continuously homeless for one year or more, or has experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the last three years where the combined length of time homeless on those occasions is at least 12 months."
- individuals ("households that were not composed of both adults and children") and families
As of mid-December, the US point-in-time counts of those were:[1]
233,832 total unsheltered homeless
348,630 total sheltered homeless
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216,495 unsheltered individuals
204,897 sheltered individuals
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78,615 unsheltered chronically homeless individuals
49,153 sheltered chronically homeless individuals
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More than half of all counted unsheltered chronically homeless individuals in the United States in December were in California (44,120 of 78,615; 56% of total unsheltered chronically homeless, 7.6% of total US homeless).
1: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-...