What is a PIT Count?

Point-in-Time (PIT) Count is the annual process of identifying and “counting” individuals and families experiencing sheltered and unsheltered homelessness on a single night in January as outlined and defined by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD). HUD requires any community receiving funding from the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants, which includes both the Continuum of Care (CoC) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding, to conduct an annual count.