This report, commissioned by the City of Ottawa, aggregates data from the first shelter stay of clients in HIFIS 4. In other words, for each client, it looks up to see what was their first date of shelter admission, out of all the stays that have been recorded in HIFIS. Then it summarizes the total unique number of new shelter clients by month and by year, allowing you to track long-term shelter inflow data. There is no date parameters for this report; instead it automatically displays data for up to the past 5 years (if there is data going back that far).