New Jersey Point in Time Count
As part of its Continuum of Care (CoC) application for homelessness funding, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requests that jurisdictions across the nation conduct a bi-annual, statistically reliable and unduplicated count of the homeless over the course of one day in the last ten (10) days in January. The CoC jurisdictions in NJ conduct an annual count of the homeless on a voluntary basis and have been doing so since 2007.
The goal of the PITC is to identify the number of homeless people at a given point in time and to collect demographic and other information about those who are homeless to be used to develop effective plans to address and end homelessness.
CSH's Role
In New Jersey, CSH is responsible for organizing the PITC as well as producing the report which includes data from all 21 Counties/CoC jurisdictions.
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