by Pat Hartman | Mar 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Salt Lake City, Utah, has boarded the Housing First train in a very promising way. To calculate how economical the solution is, the founders contrasted the cost of housing people in apartments with the cost of incarcerating them and the cost of emergency...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
These posts often focus on Austin for two reasons, the more obvious of which is that House the Homeless is located there. The other is that Austin’s display of leadership is always worth watching. Now it’s time to catch up again, because a lot has...
by Pat Hartman | Feb 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
ABT, the company hired by the government to count the homeless, collects data from the winter Point in Time surveys and puts it through a process called “imputing,” which basically means making a wild-ass guess with the assistance of some electronic device. ABT...
by Pat Hartman | Feb 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Two years ago, when the previous national Point in Time survey was done, Popular Mechanics magazine went back to the survey before that one in order to take a close look at how homeless veterans were counted. The first answer was that the Department of...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Department of Housing and Urban Development requires a biennial census of people experiencing homelessness. How is it carried out? Last time around, Popular Mechanics magazine offered this explanation: In the third week of January every other year,...
