[20060926]RS22328_无家可归者管理信息系统.pdf

1 As defined by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (P.L. 100-77), a homeless personis “(1) an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and (2) anindividual who has a primary nighttime residence that is (A) a supervised publicly or privatelyoperated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels,congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill); (B) an institution that providesa temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or (C) a public or privateplace not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for humanbeings.” Congressional Research Service The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS WebOrder Code RS22328Updated September 26, 2006The Homeless Management Information SystemLibby PerlAnalyst in Social LegislationDomestic Social Policy DivisionSummaryBeginning in 1998, Congress directed the Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment (HUD) to develop a process for collecting data on the homeless. Togetherwith local communities, HUD began in 2001 to implement a Homeless ManagementInformation System (HMIS). T