FOOTNOTES

¹According to the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, 22.5 percent of the total United States population lived in nonmetro areas. There is no reliable national estimate of the percent of homeless persons in nonmetro areas.

²Metropolitan (metro) areas, or Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) are defined by the Office of Management and Budget. In general, MSAs contain at least one city or Census Bureau-defined urbanized area of at least 50,000 population and a total metro population of at least 100,000. Except in New England -- where they are defined in terms of cities and towns -- MSAs are defined by county boundaries. In addition to the central county, which contains the primary city, an MSA may contain other counties that are socially and economically integrated with the central county. Nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas/counties are all those that are not included in MSAs. Although nonmetro is often equated with rural, both metro and nonmetro areas generally consist of census-defined rural and urban areas (which are not defined by county boundaries). The appendix to this report includes various definitions of "rural."

³U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, Notice of Fund Availability (NOFA): Supportive Housing Program (SHP), Shelter Plus Care (S+C), Sec 8 Mod Rehab Single Room Occupancy Program for Homeless Individuals (SRO) (Washington, DC: HUD, March 1993), 12.

⁴Ibid., 13.

⁵U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1990Census of Population and Housing: Summary Population and Housing Characteristics United States (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1992), A-8.

⁶Ibid., A-11.

⁷Ibid., A-12.

⁸Margaret A. Butler, Rural-Urban Continuum Codes for Metro and Nonmetro Counties (Washington, DC: USDA Economic Research Service, 1990), 2.

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