Vermont PIT and HIC

Point In Time (PIT)

Annual count and survey of unsheltered and sheltered homeless persons.

This year the PIT date is January 24, 2024.

Conducted on a single night in January, typically the 4th Wednesday.
Every community nationwide participates in the count.
The unsheltered and sheltered count will continue as normal for 2024 in your state.

The following information is for agencies that are required to participate in the count and enter their projects into the HMIS.

Categorized by three Program Types:

Emergency Shelter
Transitional Housing
Safe Haven - There are no HUD defined Safe Haven project types in Vermont

Housing Inventory Count (HIC)

A point-in-time inventory of provider programs within a Continuum of Care that provide beds and units dedicated to serve people experiencing homelessness and, for permanent housing projects, were homeless at entry, per the HUD homeless definition.

Categorized by six Program Types:

Emergency Shelter
Transitional Housing
Rapid Re-housing
Safe Haven - There are no HUD defined Safe Haven project types in Vermont
Permanent Supportive Housing
Other Permanent Housing

Timelines and Due Dates

2024 Point In Time (PIT) and Housing Inventory Chart (HIC) has a very tight and strict timeline. The PIT and HIC need to be submitted to HUD by the end of March 2024.

Point In Time (PIT) Timeline:

HMIS Due Dates:

Thursday January 25, 2024 – Run HMIS PIT reports and send out to users
Thursday February 1, 2024 – All data should be entered into HMIS
Thursday February 8, 2024 – Have confirmed and accurate PIT report

Non-HMIS Due Dates:

Thursday January 25, 2024 – Start collecting data and can start to enter into the Google Forms
Thursday February 1, 2024 – All data should be collected and ready to be entered into the Google Forms
Thursday February 8, 2024 – All data should be entered into the Google Forms

2024 Housing Inventory Count (HIC) Timeline:

If your agency does not have an Emergency Shelter or Transitional Housing project in HMIS:

Friday January 26, 2024 – Run HMIS HIC report for the agencies that don’t have ES/TH
Friday February 9, 2024 – All data entered into HMIS
Friday February 16, 2024 – Have confirmed and accurate HIC report

If your agency does have an Emergency Shelter or Transitional Housing project in HMIS:

Monday February 5, 2024 – Run HIC report for agencies with ES/TH
Friday February 9, 2024 – All data entered into HMIS
Friday February 16, 2024 – Have confirmed and accurate HIC report

Additional Notes:

All agencies will also receive an email from ICA staff to gather program information to confirm things like; funding source, bed numbers, address, start dates, etc. This information is gathered each year to make sure that the CoC is reporting the most accurate program information.
In March 2024 ICA will be compiling all the data from the different data sources - HMIS, Google Forms and DV Data documents, to create the combined PIT data that is needed to submit to HUD for each HUD CoC. HIC reports and the PIT data will be used to populate the HIC portion of the required data submission to HUD.
Warning and Errors in the HUD database will be addressed during this time as well.
Please be aware that ICA staff may be contacting you to ask questions to help with this work. We will also have limited available time to schedule calls with providers in order to get all this work done.