Returns to Homelessness: Key Considerations for Using This Metric to Improve System Performance.

The article focuses on the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which operate the two largest U.S. homeless service system. Topics include data on returns to homelessness, important data limitations to acknowledge and questions to answer about the types of homeless services that should be included and the duration of homelessness that qualifies as return to homelessness, and types of homeless services that count.