North Carolina Housing Inventory Count for Families Experiencing Homelessness 2017 to 2021

Early Years reviewed family bed and family unit counts in North Carolina over a five-year period, 2017 through 2021. Early Years compared the data year over year to examine and report on changes over time. Because HUD does not make any interpretations about year-to-year changes in the HIC reports, Early Years also does not speculate on the reasons for the changes. HUD cautions that while the data represents a large portion of the bed and unit inventory, it is not a complete inventory in any community or state. Beds and units are not always available during the period in which the count is completed, or the data about them is insufficient for HUD to categorize the information. Furthermore, local data may differ from HUD data and the reader may want to inquire about state or local level data in order to get a more robust picture of bed and unit inventory.