Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population: 2000. Census 2000 Special Reports.

This report presents tabulations from Census 2000 data on people enumerated at emergency and transitional shelters. This includes shelters for people experiencing homelessness; shelters for children who are runaways, neglected, or without conventional housing; transitional shelters for people without conventional housing; and hotels and motels used to provide shelter for people without conventional housing. The report provides data on the following issues: who the people are without conventional housing in Census 2000; how people experiencing homelessness are included in Census 2000; to what extent the service-based enumeration operation provides a count of the population experiencing homelessness or of the population using services; important issues to consider when reviewing the population data for emergency and transitional shelters; Census 2000 data on the emergency and transitional shelter population; characteristics of the population in emergency and transitional shelters in Census 2000; and information for counties and census tracts on the population in emergency and transitional shelters that is available on the Internet. (SM)