Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER)

The HOPWA section of the CAPER has been revised to better capture
accurate program information and to evaluate client outcome measures.
The revised CAPER will aid the grantees in determining the positive
outcomes of their program and help direct future efforts, as well as aid
headquarters in demonstrating program effectiveness.

The revised CAPER is expected to be implemented in July 2004. Grantees
with program years that run from July to June will begin to use the
revised CAPER this July for the report to be submitted at the end of the
2004 program year.

The current CAPER contains two sections:

1.  Grantee Narrative

2.  Grantee Accomplishment Data (CAPER Charts 1 and 2)

The revised CAPER now contains three parts:

1.  Grantee Narrative

2.  Grantee Accomplishment Data

3.  Racial and Ethnic Data Collection

The following reviews each section of the CAPER and highlights
revisions.

**Grantee Narrative.** This section asks for a response to the same
issues seen in the current CAPER. These issues are separated into
Grantee and Community Overview, Project Accomplishment Overview, and
Barriers or Trends Overview. This section has not changed, and
instructions are located on the web at:
<http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/aidshousing/reporting/formula/narrative.cfm>.

**Grantee Accomplishment Data.** This section has changed in several
ways:

-   Chart 1, Actual Performance, has been expanded to capture more
    program information. This chart now contains Table A, which is the
    same as the current CAPER Chart 1, and Table B, which requires both
    HOPWA and non-HOPWA funds expenditure data. This information needs
    to be reported in four categories: Housing Information Services,
    Resource Identification, Supportive Services, and Grantee/Sponsor
    Administrative Costs.

-   Chart 3, Housing Stability Outcomes, has been added to measure
    client outcomes and demonstrate program effectiveness. It requires a
    listing of:

    -   Types of Housing Assistance

    -   Total Number of Households in each type of assistance

    -   Average Length of Stay (in weeks) per assisted participant

    -   Number Remaining in Project

    -   Number Who Left Project and Destination, which lists possible
        destinations for participants who exited HOPWA-funded housing
        assistance, including Emergency Shelter, Temporary Housing,
        Private Housing, Other HOPWA, Other Subsidy, Institution,
        Jail/Prison, Disconnected and Death. The listed categories can
        then be used to determine the number in stable housing and the
        number in unstable situations.

> The total remaining in Tenant-Based Rental Assistance and
> Facility-Based Housing added to participants in Private Housing, Other
> HOPWA, Other Subsidy and Institution, are considered in stable
> housing. The number remaining in Short-term Rent, Mortgage, and
> Utility Assistance, added to participants in Emergency Shelter,
> Temporary Housing, Jail/Prison, and Disconnected, are considered in
> unstable housing.

**Racial and Ethnic Data Collection (new)**. This section contains
charts, mandated by the Office of Management and Budget, to list the
program participants that fall into various racial and ehtnic categories
racial the new racial/ethnic standards set forth by OMB in December
2000. These racial and ethnic charts correspond to the IDIS Beneficiary
data screen, so information reported into IDIS can be easily transferred
to the revised CAPER.