Characteristics

Percentage Allocated by Program Type

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Total Beds Reserved For Vulnerable Populations

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Bed Utilization Rate Based On January Count

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Housing Inventory

In the state of Texas, roughly 350 organizations provide a total of 32,737 year-around beds1 for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, displaced from housing, receiving long-term care for disabilities, including Ryan White assistance, and experiencing domestic violence.

This total represents emergency shelter (ES), transitional housing (TH), permanent supportive housing (PSH), and safe haven (SH) beds as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development2.

In mapping current inventory, THN aims to provide communties a resource to inform housing policy and strategy, identify areas of need, and ultimately improve capacity to respond to homelessness.

  • Emergency Shelter Maps

    Emergency Shelter Maps

    These maps show the distribution of 13,116 emergency shelter beds by county, coded by Continuum of Care, including population statistics from the 2010 U.S. Census.
     
  • Transitional Housing Maps

    Transitional Housing Maps

    These maps show the distribution of 10,700 transitional housing beds by county, coded by Continuum of Care, including population statistics from the 2010 U.S. Census.
     
  • Permanent Supportive Housing Maps

    Permanent Supportive Housing Maps

    These maps show the distribution of 8,735 permanent supportive housing beds by county, coded by Continuum of Care, including population statistics from the 2010 U.S. Census.
     
  • Safe Haven Map

    Safe Haven Map

    This map shows the distribution of 186 safe haven beds by county, coded by Continuum of Care, including population statistics from the 2010 U.S. Census.
     
 

Contact Daniel Gore for more information on housing inventory and resource mapping.

1 Source data provided by Texas Continuums of Care.

2 Emergency Shelter (HUD Definition): Any facility, the primary purpose of which is to provide temporary or transitional shelter for the homeless in general or for specific populations of the homeless.

Transitional Housing (HUD Definition): A project that has as its purpose facilitating the movement of homeless individuals and families to permanent housing within a reasonable amount of time (usually 24 months). Transitional housing includes housing primarily designed to serve deinstitutionalized homeless individuals and other homeless individuals with mental or physical disabilities and homeless families with children..

Permanent Supportive Housing (HUD Definition): Long-term, community-based housing that has supportive services for homeless persons with disabilities. This type of supportive housing enables special needs populations to live as independently as possible in a permanent setting. The supportive services may be provided by the organization managing the housing or coordinated by the applicant and provided by other public or private service agencies. Permanent housing can be provided in one structure or several structures at one site or in multiple structures at scattered sites. There is no definite length of stay.

Safe Haven (HUD Definition): A form of supportive housing that serves hard-to-reach homeless persons with severe mental illness and other debilitating behavioral conditions who are on the street and have been unable or unwilling to participate in housing or supportive services. A Safe Haven project that has the characteristics of permanent supportive housing and requires clients to sign a lease may also be classified as permanent housing when applying for HUD funds. It is expected that clients will be reengaged with treatment services as they become stabilized and learn to trust service providers.