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The starting point for classifying people who experience homelessness is to distinguish adults and children who experience homelessness together (“families”) from people who experience homelessness without an accompanying child (“individuals”). This distinction is made by the U.S. Department of HUD in its annual reports to Congress, by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness in federal strategic plans to end homelessness, and by community‐level planners who are responsible for allocating federal and local resources to address homelessness. The distinction between families and individuals is based loosely on the research literature that began to describe modern homelessness in the late 1980s, as well as the arrangements localities made for shelters, especially in the eastern part of the U.S. It has proved useful for policy and practice. Other groupings (veterans, youth, and people with chronic patterns of homelessness) overlap with both families and individuals.