“Counts can significantly increase a community’s ability to take action towards ending homelessness by:
- Identifying the characteristics of the local population.
- Increasing capacity to undertake a local needs assessment.
- Enhancing system planning and program development.
- Measuring progress towards ending homelessness.
- Increasing public awareness about homelessness.
- Enhancing the ability to test the efficacy of programs and interventions aimed at ending homelessness. “
- Excerpt from the COH Point-in-Time Count Toolkit