Noninstitutional group quarters include rooming houses, group homes, religious group quarters, military quarters, college dormitories, emergency shelters for the homeless, runaway shelters and housing for staff residents of institutions. The information we will be providing to the Bureau of the Census includes the name of the institution, the address, a contact person, a phone number and the total capacity for that address. The search for a comprehensive list of group quarters has required compilation of information from various sources. The State has provided us their database of licensed facilities. The County has a database of addresses which are periodically inspected.
Some lists are more problematic to compile than others.
The Los Angeles Archdiocese is the contact for the religious housing for Catholic priests and nuns. However, other types of religious housing have been hard to track.