Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
Wisconsin leads the nation in collecting homeless data on Wisconsin veterans by using the HMIS
system. During the year, the 24 statewide Continuum of Care networks and users of HMIS enters
homeless veterans data into the HMIS System. For calendar year 2016, the HMIS report shows
that there were 1,707 homeless veterans being served by the various providers over the
course of the year versus the 415 veterans the USDVA reported.
Point in Time (PIT) Report: The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (USDVA) uses the
PIT report to determine how many homeless veterans there are per year in each state. During
one day in January each year the USDVA will work with volunteers, emergency shelters, Veteran
Transitional Housing facilities and other partners to identify and count the number of homeless
veterans they can locate throughout the state. This data is consolidated and used to reflect the
number of homeless veterans in each state.
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2016: 415 (392 sheltered, 23 unsheltered)

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2015: 534 (515 sheltered, 19 unsheltered)
2014: 520 (496 sheltered, 24 unsheltered)
2013: 552 (528 sheltered, 24 unsheltered)
2012: 539 (525 sheltered, 14 unsheltered)
2011: 607 (584 sheltered, 23 unsheltered)

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22% Decrease from 2015

Note: Both reports do include veterans that are being housed in one of the ten (10) Veteran Transitional Housing Programs (Grant & PerDiem) located throughout the state; which offers a total of 348 beds for veterans.

 HOMELESS VETERANS IN WISCONSIN (As of 1/1/17)
Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
CoC

Veteran Homeless Data – Total Veterans Experiencing Homelessness
2014
2014
2015
2015
2016
Provider CoC Code
Veterans *ESVeterans
Veterans
*ESVeterans Veterans

2016
*ES Veterans

1

Brown

85

80

100

98

98

91

2

CAP

75

13

63

11

62

14

3

Central

5

4

13

11

11

9

4

Couleecap

376

75

387

88

193

75

5

FoxCities

79

66

75

69

65

56

6

Indianhead

19

1

18

3

1

1

7

Jefferson

26

2

15

8

5

4

8

Kenosha

41

37

37

31

30

26

9

Lakeshore

30

29

25

25

25

25

10

North Central CAP

38

38

32

32

33

33

11

Northeast

11

10

5

4

1

1

12

Northwest

29

24

28

27

32

32

13

N*WISH

13

12

9

8

7

7

14

Ozaukee

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

1

1

15

Rock-Walworth

104

7

101

21

97

9

16

Southwest

2

1

1

0

N/A

N/A

17

Washington

5

4

5

5

2

2

18

Waukesha

51

41

41

33

41

34

19

WestCentral

104

46

98

47

96

39

20

Western Dairyland

41

41

51

50

48

48

21

Winnebagoland

34

34

34

34

21

21

22

Dane

274

154

290

171

200

136

23

Milwaukee

600

261

571

264

408

207

24

Racine

124

56

134

42

97

25

25

Statewide

362

0

2166

1036

2133

1082

1707

846

Total (unduplicated):

*ES Veteran = Veterans using Emergency Shelters

20% drop in overall
veteran homelessness
and 22% drop in
emergency shelter
stays in 2016.