PROJECTS

Homelessness in United States has always been a big issue. It continues to destabilize families and communities across the country. Even after several policy considerations by the government it seems to be a prevalent problem in our society. With ever growing inflation and higher cost of living there are multiple states affected economically. Housing instability is an inevitable reality for families in US.

In order to write this research article, I have collected different datasets from three states where homelessness is a known problem: New York, Texas, and California. According to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness here are some findings:

•  For California: As of January 2020, California had an estimated 161,548 experiencing

homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that Total, 8,030 were family
households, 11,401 were Veterans, 12,172 were unaccompanied young adults (aged 18-24),
and 51,785 were individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.

• For Texas: As of January 2020, Texas had an estimated 27,229 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that Total, 1,912 were family households, 1,948 were Veterans, 1,408 were unaccompanied young adults (aged 18-24), and 4,033 were individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.

• For New York: As of January 2020, New York had an estimated 91,271 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that Total, 15,151 were family households, 1,251 were Veterans, 3,072 were unaccompanied young adults (aged 18-24), and 7,515 were individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.

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Methods for Data Analysis
I started reading about homelessness and what causes people to become homeless.
 What factors I need to address?
 Data collection – by collecting datasets from three different states
 Cleaning up data using data cleaning techniques
 Setting my key performance indicators like I want to understand three factors the most:
o a. Household Income
o b. Educational Attainment
o c. Unemployment
Use Tableau as a data visualization tool to interpret what is the data telling me

Start to build the story of what is happening in each state.

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View the full project report here.

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