Specific State Requirements
State Count Guidelines define count requirements coming from the state
Homeless Act
Guidelines define:
- Who is counted, unhoused, emergency
shelter,
transitional
housing.Important
to count doubled up,
but not required.
- Count results must include an accounting of
homeless persons
throughout the county.
- Counts must respect privacy, with
an emphasis on
protecting
DV identifiers
- Counts must work to eliminate duplication, through
identifiers,
limited time of count, asking people not to do duplicate forms
- Count must be done on January 26, 2006 with exceptions allowed
for particular locations/circumstances (see guidelines)
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