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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.
2025 K-Count Information
The KY BoS CoC will conduct both
sheltered and unsheltered portions of the K-Count on
Wednesday, January 29, 2025.
K-Count Training
In-Person Trainings: KHC will host a series of in-person trainings across the KY BoS CoC January 9–15. To see specific locations, dates/times, and to register to attend, click here.
“Counting Us" Webinar Training: For people unable to attend an in-person training, KHC will host a training via webinar at 2 p.m. ET Tuesday, January 21, 2025. Registration is required. This webinar will focus largely on the “Counting Us" app that is used to collect data for people sleeping outside or other places not meant for regular human habitation and for people conducting the count within emergency shelters or transitional housing programs that do not enter data into the Kentucky Homelessness Management System (KYHMIS).
KYHMIS K-Count Webinar Training: ES and TH projects that do enter data on a regular basis into KYHMIS will submit K-Count data via KYHMIS and will not use the Counting Us app. Specific instructions will be provided in a K-Count webinar specifically for ES and TH KYHMIS users at 2 p.m. ET Thursday, January 16, 2025. Registration is required.
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
- KYHMIS K-Count Directions Coming Soon
Additional Resources
More information coming soon.
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
- KHC will host a HIC webinar to provide instructions at 2 p.m. ET Monday, January 27, 2024. Registration is required.
HIC Forms