Point-In-Time Guide

Instrument name: Point-In-Time Guide and Survey Questions

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Citation: Burt, MR and Wilkins, C. (2005) Estimating the need: Projecting from point in time to annual estimates of the number of homeless people in a community and using this information to plan for permanent supportive housing. Corporation for Supportive Housing. CSH Evidence Series.

Purpose: To assess the homeless history of a currently homeless individual.

Population: Currently homeless adults

Publication date(s): 2005

Domain: Housing history

Administration: Structured interview

Reliability and validity information: None reported

Item description/response options: Four questions assessing length of current and previous homeless episodes, and number of times homeless in the past three years.

Description of tool: Tool published in a guide for homeless services providers and researchers generated by the Corporation for Supportive Housing.