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Every year, Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) conducts the K-Count to monitor the homeless situation in Kentucky. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires such a count every other year, but KHC believes it best serves the people of Kentucky to conduct this count yearly.
Results of the K-Count demonstrate the need for resources for housing and services for homeless persons in each community and helps determine how much federal funding will be awarded from HUD for homeless programs. More information is available in the K-Count Info Sheet.
Please note: Louisville and Lexington will coordinate their own counts. For more information, please contact Louisville's Coalition for the Homeless or the Lexington Office of Homelessness Intervention and Prevention.
2026 K-Count Information
Alert! Due to severe winter weather, the 2026 K-Count originally scheduled for January 28 has been postponed and will now take place on Wednesday, February 25, 2026. Everything else remains the same. Any references to January 28 in the training materials below or otherwise should be replaced with February 25.
K-Count Trainings
“Counting Us" Webinar Training
KHC hosted a webinar training on January 20, 2026 focusing on the Counting Us app that will be used to collect information from people experiencing unsheltered homelessness and people staying in emergency shelters and transitional housing programs not using the Kentucky Homelessness Management Information System (KYHMIS) to enter client-level data. The training included content nearly identical to what was covered during the in-person trainings held earlier in January. A link to the webinar recording and the webinar slides are posted below.
K-Count Webinar for KYHMIS Users
KHC hosted a separate webinar training for ES
and TH projects that do enter data on a regular basis into KYHMIS on January
15, 2026. KYHMIS-participating projects will submit data for the K-Count via HMIS, not the Counting Us app. A recording on the KYHMIS-specific K-Count webinar can be found in the KYHMIS LearnUpon system. A link to LearnUpon is posted below.
Counting Us App and Web-based Version
The Counting Us app will be used to collect and report to KHC data for people sleeping in emergency shelters and transitional housing projects that do not use the KY Homelessness Management Information System (KYHMS) as well as for the unsheltered count (i.e., people sleeping outside or in other places not meant for regular human habitation). Counting Us can be used in real-time while interviewing people by downloading the Counting Us app to your phone/tablet, or you can use the web-based version to enter data into the electronic platform after it has been captured on paper copies of the surveys. Below, you will find instructions for downloading the app or accessing Counting Us via the web-based option.
Survey Forms (Paper Copies)
Using the Counting Us app is the preferred method for collecting data in real time. However, paper copies of the surveys are available below. If responses are collected via paper, the individual responses must still be entered into Counting Us by using either the
web-based version of the platform via computer or through the phone/tablet app.
KYHMIS K-Count Directions
Housing Inventory Count
Each year in conjunction with the annual Point in Time Count (i.e., K-Count), the U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires each CoC to collect information on the bed and unit inventory available as part of its homelessness response system. This is known as the Housing Inventory Count (HIC). All emergency shelters (ES) and transitional housing (TH) projects that submit data for the K-Count, regardless of funding source, must submit a HIC form to KHC. In addition, all Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) and Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) projects, regardless of funding source, must also submit HIC Forms.
HIC Training
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More Information Coming Soon
HIC Forms