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Homeless Definition Homeless - includes the following four “homeless” categories: ● Category 1: Individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, meaning: ○ Has a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, including a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train station, airport, or camping ground; ○ Is living in a publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements. ○ Is exiting an institution where the individual or family resided for 90 days or less and who resided in an emergency shelter or place not meant for human habitation immediately before entering that institution. ○ Homeless is defined as living in a place not meant for human habitation (i.e: on street, in car), in an emergency shelter, in transitional housing, or exiting an institution, etc., where you temporarily resided. ● Category 2: Individual or family who will imminently lose their primary nighttime residence, provided that: ○ Residence will be lost within 14 days of the date of application for homeless assistance; ○ No subsequent residence has been identified; and ○ The individual or family lacks the resources or support networks needed to obtain other permanent housing. ● Category 3: Unaccompanied youth under 25 years of age, or families with children and youth, who do not otherwise qualify as homeless under this definition but who: ○ Are defined as homeless under the other listed federal statutes; ○ Have not had a lease, ownership interest, or occupancy agreement in permanent housing during the 60 days prior to the homeless assistance application; ○ Have experienced persistent instability as measured by two moves or more during the 60-day period immediately preceding the date of applying for homeless assistance; and ○ Can be expected to continue in such status for an extended period of time due to certain special needs or barriers. ● Category 4: Any individual or family who: ○ Is fleeing, or is attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or other dangerous or life-threatening conditions that relate to violence against the individual or a family member, including a child, that has either a place within the individual’s or family’s primary nighttime residence or has made the individual or family afraid to return to their primary nighttime residence; ○ Has no other residence; and ○ Lacks the resources or support networks to obtain other permanent housing.