Homeless in Metropolitan Denver Point‐In‐Time Study, 2011
NATURE OF HOMELESSNESS 9. Duration and Episodes of Homelessness Duration of homelessness refers to how long a particular episode of homelessness has lasted. Number of episodes refers to the number of separate times a household has experienced homelessness, regardless of how long each of the episodes lasted. Duration Table 9. Duration of Homelessness Over half (52.9%) of Frequency Percent respondents say their Less than 1 month 575 11.2 household has been More than 1 month but less than 1 year 2,136 41.7 homeless for less than 1 to 3 years 1,182 23.1 one year, while one in More than 3 years 535 10.4 ten (10.4%) have been Don’t know 95 1.9 * The table adds up to 88.3 percent. The missing percentage homeless for more represents those respondents who reported they were not than three years. homeless in this question, but indicated homelessness in their answers to other questions. Episodes The single largest group Table 10. Episodes of Homelessness Frequency Percent of respondents (39.9%) Once in last three years 2,042 39.9 said their household Twice in last three years 1,098 21.5 was experiencing its Three times in last three years 665 13.0 first episode of Four times in last three years 251 4.9 homelessness in the Five or more times in last three years 633 12.4 last three years on the * The table adds up to 91.7 percent. The missing percentage represents those respondents who reported they were not night of January 24. homeless in this question, but indicated homelessness in their More than one in five answers to other questions. (21.5%) had been homeless twice in the last three years, and nearly one‐in‐eight had been homeless five or more times. Tables 11 and 12 show the differences between households with and without children regarding episodes and duration of homelessness. Households without children are twice as likely to have been homeless five or more times, and to have been homeless for more than three years.
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative
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