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Home My WebLink Aboutberkeley-pit-2024-infographicEmergency Shelter Transitional Housing Safe Haven 95%5%0% Unsheltered Sheltered Emergency Shelter Transitional Housing Safe Haven 73.1%26.6%0.4% Unsheltered Sheltered Every 2 years, communities conduct counts of people experiencing both sheltered and unsheltered homelessness. The 2024 Alameda County Point-in-Time (PIT) Count was a community-wide effort conducted on January 25, 2024. The snapshot below includes people enrolled in shelter projects in Berkeley on the night of January 24th and those interviewed or observed as experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the early morning hours of 1/25/24. BERKELEY ALAMEDA COUNTY 2019 2022 2024 BERKELEY UNSHELTERED SLEEPING LOCATIONS 2019 2022 2024 TYPE OF SHELTER 1,108 813 295 1,057 803 254 844 445 399 8,022 6,312 1,710 9,747 7,135 2,612 9,450 6,343 3,107 CITY OF BERKELEY ALAMEDA COUNTY Sheltered UnshelteredSHELTERED/UNSHELTEREDPOPULATION 47%53% Sheltered UnshelteredSHELTERED/UNSHELTEREDPOPULATION 33%67% BERKELEY ALAMEDA COUNTY 24%7% STREETORSIDEWALKOTHERTENT/MAKESHIFTSHELTER VEHICLE / RV 20%49% Age 35-44 24.2% Age 55-6420.4% Age 25-34 19.9% Age 45-54 16.2% Age 65+12.2% Under 184.1% AGE 65+ 12.2% UNDER 18 4.1%AGE 18-24 3% AGE 55-64 20.4% AGE 35-44 24.2% AGE 25-34 19.9% AGE 45-54 16.2% CITY OF BERKELEY HOMELESS CENSUS & SURVEY 2024 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Within AlamedaCounty Outside of AlamedaCountyRESIDENCEPRIOR TOBECOMINGHOMELESS 57%43% AGE RANGES LENGTH OF TIME LIVING IN ALAMEDA COUNTY < 1 Year 1-4 Yrs 5-9 Yrs 10+ Yrs 14.3%16.1%8.9%60.7% CITY OF BERKELEY HOMELESS CENSUS & SURVEY 2024 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Housing LossRelated Job Loss/IncomeRelated HealthRelatedIssues PRIMARY CAUSES OF HOMELESSNESS 33%39%21% HouseholdLoss/ BreakupRelated 14% 2%41%12%27% ADDITIONAL HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS Veterans 4% Survivors of Domestic Violence 8% HIV/Aids Related Illness 3% Serious Mental Illness 43% Substance Use Disorder 26% Chronic Homelessness 42% Gender Groups (*Please note the US Census only provides data for Male and Female categories) PIT General Population Man Man Woman Woman *Additional Gender Identities 2.4% 48.9% 68.1% 51.1% 29.5% *Census data does not currently differentiate between Hispanic/Latino/a/e status for Multiple Races RACE IDENTITIES COMPARED TO GENERAL POPULATION PIT General Population 2.6%0.7%3.2% 20.8% 43.8% 7.8% 13.7%12.1%6.8%9.8%1.1%0.2% 34.2% 55.5% American Indian / Native Alaskan Asian or Asian American Black / African American Hispanic & Latino/e/a Middle Eastern or North African Multiple Races- Not Latino/e/a* Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander White 0%0% UnshelteredPeople with aPet Pregnant orExpecting aChild Interaction withCriminal Justicein Past Year UnshelteredPeople withEmployment