Interactive Tools + Solutions

The Homelessness Research Institute has developed interactive maps, calculators, and charts to improve understanding of concepts related to ending homelessness.

Spotlight

Interactive Tool  |  June 29, 2010
The Alliance research brief Economic Bytes: Doubled up in the United States estimates that there are 4.8 million people living in a housing unit with extended family, friends, and other non-relatives due to economic hardship, earning no more than 125 percent of the federal poverty level. This map shows how many of the 4.8 million reside in each state.

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Interactive Tool  |  July 4, 2010
This interactive chart shows per household prevention and rapid re-housing spending for the thirteen cities profiled in the Alliance's Quarterly Leadership Council HPRP Report: January - March 2010.
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Interactive Tool  |  June 21, 2010
This interactive chart illustrates the Alliance's understanding of the necessary reductions in homelessness, as measured during January point-in-time counts, that correspond to the goals set forth in the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness' Opening Doors: The Federal Strategic Plan to End Homelessness.
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Interactive Tool  |  May 5, 2010
This interactive spreadsheet serves as a database of the 234 Plans that have been collected by the Alliance.
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Interactive Tool  |  May 2, 2010
This map serves as a geographic database of the 234 state, regional, and local ten year plans to end homelessness that have been collected by the Alliance.
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Interactive Tool  |  March 1, 2010
This interactive stacked bar chart illustrates the relative costs of permanent supportive housing and homelessness (prior to supportive housing) in five different communities: Portland, ME; New York, NY; Rhode Island; Portland, OR, and Denver, CO.
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Interactive Tool  |  January 26, 2010
This interactive chart quantifies the changes to funding allocations made by the HEARTH Act and demonstrates the impact of several FY2011 funding scenarios, including two different "Hold-Harmless" scenarios. The table shows funding activity under 4 different scenarios.
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Interactive Tool  |  January 26, 2010
This Interactive Map presents the results of all point-in-time counts that have been conducted by local communities across the country from 2005 to 2008 and reported to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Interactive Tool  |  January 16, 2010
This timeline, released in conjunction with A Shifting Focus: What's In Ten Year Plans to End Homelessness, documents the evolution of 10-year plans from the development of the first plan in 1998 to the present.
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Interactive Tool  |  November 30, 2009
The bar charts illustrate how homelessness increased overall and among families in Major Cities at the same time that homelessness decreased overall and among the chronic and family subpopulations in other Urban CoCs.
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Interactive Tool  |  November 9, 2009
The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that 131,230 veterans were homeless on a given night in 2008. This map shows how many veterans are estimated to be homeless in each state.
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Interactive Tool  |  August 27, 2009
This interactive tool shows the communities with the largest homeless populations and highest rates of homelessness.
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Interactive Tool  |  July 14, 2009
This interactive map identifies the geographic distribution of the homeless population for each of the 50 states.
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Interactive Tool  |  June 9, 2009
This interactive stacked bar chart illustrates the relative costs of permanent supportive housing and homelessness (prior to supportive housing) for both urban and rural areas in the state of Maine.
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Interactive Tool  |  May 29, 2009
This calculator illustrates the relationship between shelter demand, length of stay, and minimum required shelter bed inventory.
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Interactive Tool  |  April 1, 2009
This map serves as a database of January 2009 point-in-time counts that have been reported in the media or on Continuum of Care websites. Red markers indicate reports of increases and green markers indicate reports of decreases. Links to news story's or CoC websites are included.
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Interactive Tool  |  January 12, 2009
Created in conjuction with Homelessness Counts: Changes in Homelessness from 2005 to 2007, this interactive map provides homeless counts and other demographic data for all 50 states for the years 2005 and 2007.