Housing Inventory Count and Point-in-Time Count
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires counts of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons for those communities receiving federal funding from the Continuum of Care (CoC) and Emergency Solutions Grant Programs. These are called Point-in-Time Counts (PIT), as they occur during one day in the last ten days of January.
HUD also requires the annual completion of a Housing Inventory Count (HIC), which provides an overview of a community’s homeless program inventory. The HIC must be completed on the same day as the PIT Count.
Collecting data on the numbers and characteristics of homeless individuals and families as well as homeless services capacity can serve additional purposes over and beyond meeting HUD requirements. Accurate counts offer several benefits including:
- Providing support for local planning efforts by identifying unmet needs and trends in size and characteristics of homeless populations
- Supplying guidance for development of more effective programming and services
- Raising awareness of homelessness
- Enhancing local homeless programs’ volunteer base
- Assisting with allocation of resources around local priorities
- Targeting interventions for certain homeless sub-populations
- Opportunity to conduct community outreach, engagement, screening, and triage to identify people experiencing homelessness in need of services
- Identifying community goals
- Assisting in measuring progress toward homelessness reduction goals
HIC and PIT Tools
2025 PIT Counting Us App
Counting Us App – Getting Started Guide
Ohio BoSCoC 2025 HIC and PIT Guidance Document
2025 Housing Inventory Count (HIC) Report
New Project Form
2025 Ohio BoSCoC County Contact List
HUD Safety Considerations for Counting During COVID-19
2025 PIT Sheltered Count Form
2025 PIT Unsheltered Count Form
2025 PIT Unsheltered Count Observation Form
2025 PIT Service-Based Count Form
Training
Ohio BoSCoC 2025 Housing Inventory Count (HIC) Training Recording – December 12, 2024
Ohio BoSCoC 2025 Housing Inventory Count (HIC) Training Slides – December 12, 2024
Ohio BoSCoC 2025 HIC/PIT Overview Webinar Recording – December 5, 2024
Ohio BoSCoC 2025 HIC/PIT Overview Webinar Slides – December 5, 2024
HIC and PIT Data
2024
Ohio BoSCoC 2024 PIT Count Data – by county
2023
Ohio BoSCoC 2023 PIT Count Data – by county
Ohio BoSCoC 2023 PIT Count Data
Ohio BoSCoC 2023 HIC Data
2022
Ohio BoSCoC 2022 PIT Count Data
Ohio BoSCoC 2022 HIC Data
2021
Ohio BoSCoC 2021 PIT Count Data
Ohio BoSCoC 2021 HIC Data
2020
Ohio BoSCoC 2020 PIT Count Data
Ohio BoSCoC 2020 HIC Data
2019
Ohio BoSCoC 2019 PIT Count Data Tableau Map
Ohio BoSCoC 2019 PIT Count Data (CoC level)
Ohio BoSCoC 2019 HIC Data
2018
Ohio BoSCoC 2018 PIT Count Data Tableau Map
Ohio BoSCoC 2018 HIC Data
Ohio BoSCoC 2018 HIC and PIT Count Guidance
2017
Ohio BoSCoC 2017 PIT Count Data Tableau Map
Overview of How to Access the 2017 PIT Count Data in Tableau
Ohio BoSCoC 2017 PIT Count Data (CoC)
Ohio BoSCoC 2017 HIC Data
Ohio BoSCoC 2017 PIT Count Results Listserv Message
2015
Ohio BoSCoC 2015 PIT Count Results
Ohio BoSCoC 2015 PIT Count Results and Analysis
2014
Ohio BoSCoC 2014 PIT Count Results
Ohio BoSCoC 2014 HIC Data
Ohio BoSCoC 2014 HIC/PIT Results Companion Document
Additional Resources
