The U.S. Census Bureau measures the size and composition of the poverty population using household surveys. These surveys include people living in households as well as people living in group quarters.  People experiencing homelessness and living on the streets are not included in the poverty universe. However, the American Community Survey (ACS) does include emergency and transitional shelters for people experiencing homelessness as part of the group quarter population surveyed. While these data are collected, the sheltered population experiencing homelessness has not often been studied. This paper provides insight to several aspects of this population by exploring two questions. The first is how does the poverty population living in shelters differ from the poverty population living in households. The second is who are the people that are living in shelters, but not in poverty. This paper answers these questions by examining the demographics and labor market characteristics of the sheltered and household populations, both in poverty and not in poverty.