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Alameda Countywide Homeless and Special Needs Housing Plan 73 year. The chronically homeless are all single adults with disabilities who have been homeless for a long time or frequently. They all need permanent housing. The vast majority will also require long- term support services to help them gain and maintain housing stability. Housina Needs of Community-Defined Homeless SinQle Adults. Couples without Children. Youth and Youna Adults The "community definition" of homeless is probably very close to how most people in Alameda County understand homelessness. It includes people staying in emergency shelters or transitional housing, living on the street or in a car, and people who will lose their housing within a month, and includes both people with or without disabilities. The definition also includes most people who meet HUD's definition of "chronic homelessness." The exception is for those whom HUD considers chronically homeless but who were living in permanent housing when the survey was undertaken. For planning purposes, however, the following estimate of the community-defined homeless population excludes people who meet the HUD definition of chronic homelessness, as well as adults with dependent children and children, because their housing needs are estimated separately in this chapter. Youth and adults younger than 25 are discussed separately in this section. The following estimate includes both single adults and couples who meet the community definition of homelessness. The Alameda Countywide Shelter and Services Survey published in 2004 and updated in 2005 found that 1,174 single adults or adults in couples without children in Alameda County met the community's definition ofhomelessness at a point in time.93 To estimate the number of people who meet the community definition of homelessness over the course of a year, this number was multiplied by three, and resulted in a total estimate of 3,522 community-defined homeless adults annually, in 3,212 households. The ACSSS reported an additional 355 youth and young adults (defined as youth younger than 18 who are not accompanied by an adult, and young adults emancipated youths up to age 25) in Alameda County at a point in time who also met the community's definition ofhomelessness. An estimated 7 percent (25) are either parents themselves or pregnant, and are accounted for with families later in this chapter, leaving 330 single youths and young adults. This number when likewise increased threefold yields 990 over the course of a year. However, community-based youth services providers indicated that, based on the number of youth served by their agencies annually, the actual total number of youth and young adults in Alameda County who meet the community definition of homeless in a year is closer to 1,500 over the course of a year.94 93 AHW calculation of ACSSS data. This figure is the total number of people meeting the community's definition of homelessness, minus people who are HUD-defined chronically homeless, youth and young adults, adults with children, and children. 94 Alameda Countywide Homeless and Special Needs Housing Plan: Companion Materials, 12. Housing and Services Needs: Populations Working Groups, Youth and Young Adults workgroup meeting notes.