ABSTRACT

This study merged data from the 2015 Housing Inventory Count, a list of temporary housing programs serving homeless persons nationally, and the Internal Revenue Service Form 990 tax filings for nonprofit organizations that same year. Matching records were used to develop estimates of various organizational measures per bed, adjusting for outliers, including revenues by source, expenditures by type, number of employees, employee compensation, and number of volunteers. Average values of these measures per bed by program type and by target population were extrapolated to the overall inventory to generate sector-wide estimates. Based on various measures of central tendency and after addressing outliers, a best guess of total revenues for nonprofit temporary housing providers is estimated at approximately $8.5 billion in 2015. As many as 160,000 people are employed by nonprofit shelters, or 0.4 persons per bed, with average annual compensation of approximately $24,000. Universal bed coverage for unsheltered persons is estimated to cost an additional $3.3–$4.5 billion annually.

摘要

这项研究合并了 2015 年住房库存盘点的数据，一份为全国无家可归者服务的临时住房计划清单，以及同年为非营利组织提交的国税局表格 990 纳税申报单。匹配记录用于对每张床位的各种组织措施进行估计，并针对异常值进行调整，包括按来源划分的收入、按类型划分的支出、员工人数、员工薪酬和志愿者人数。按计划类型和目标人群划分的每张床位的这些措施的平均值被外推到总体清单中，以生成全部门的估计值。根据集中趋势的各种衡量标准并在处理异常值后，对非营利性临时住房提供者的总收入的最佳猜测估计在 2015 年约为 85 亿美元。多达 160 个，000 人受雇于非营利性收容所，或每张床位 0.4 人，年平均薪酬约为 24,000 美元。无家可归者的普遍床位覆盖估计每年额外花费 3.3 至 45 亿美元。