Unhoused Populations in Iowa City
This is the name of the county Iowa City is located in
Johnson County
This is the common term for a person who does not have a permanent place to live.
What is Homeless or Unhoused
This kind of organization, with "food" in its name, collects and gives out groceries to people who need help feeding their families.
What is a food pantry?
This term simply means not having reliable access to enough food.
What is Hunger?
Who is a statistics major on the ICHP board?
Who is Dyson Detter?
This is the name of the well-known Iowa City nonprofit whose name literally describes what it provides: beds, meals, and a roof
True or False: more people experience homelessness in big cities with expensive housing than in places with cheap, plentiful housing.
This nonprofit's name describes exactly what it does: it takes surplus food from one place and moves it to a place that needs it.
What is Table to Table?
True or False: only adults experience food insecurity, children are never affected.
What is False
True or False: You have to go to every meeting and event to contribute to the ICHP.
What is False? Come to whatever you want!
True or False: the number of people counted as homeless in Iowa City has stayed exactly the same every year for the past decade.
What is False
Was the number of people counted homeless nationwide in January 2025 closer to 75,000, 750,000, or 7.5 million?
What is about 750,000 (745,652)?
If someone in Iowa City needs a free hot meal at lunchtime, this long-running program (in its name) serves one every day, no questions asked.
What is the Free Lunch Program?
This popular nickname refers to the federal program that gives people money on a card to buy groceries (officially called SNAP).
What are food stamps?
How many sophomores are on the ICHP board?
What is 3
Shelter House's emergency shelter has close to this many beds — is it closer to 10, 70, or 300?
What is Closer to 70
This term for a federal strategy means giving someone a home first, without requiring them to get sober or find a job before they qualify for housing.
What is "Housing First"?
This local nonprofit takes gently-used beds, furniture, and household items headed for the landfill and delivers them free to families moving out of homelessness — furnishing over 400 homes in 2025 alone.
What is Houses into Homes
About how many Iowans face food insecurity: is it closer to 1 in 10, 1 in 8, or 1 in 4?
What is 1 in 8?
When was the ICHP founded?
What is 2023?
In January 2025's official count, was the number of homeless individuals counted in Iowa City closer to 50, 170, or 500?
What is Closer to 170 (172 exactly)
This U.S. government department is in charge of tracking homelessness nationwide.
Hint: its name involves houses and cities
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)?
This nonprofit's Iowa City-based local chapter serves Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, and Washington Counties, and also runs a discount home-improvement store where proceeds fund new builds.
This is the name of Feeding America's annual study that estimates food insecurity in every county in the country.
What is Map the Meal Gap?
Approximately, how many events does the ICHP conduct a semester?
What is 11?