# Presentation: 190284

## Slide 1

- HUD's Homelessness Agenda

## HUD’s Homelessness Agenda 

**Continue to use the Continuum of Care SuperNOFA to effect change**

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## HUD’s Homelessness Agenda

**Encourage HUD’s $$ to be used more for housing, less for services**
**Require local strategies to end chronic homelessness with baseline numbers**

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## HUD’s Homelessness Agenda

**Generate more *****permanent***** housing, especially for those experiencing chronic homelessness**
**Preserve a high level of available funding for homeless families and non-chronically  homeless individuals**

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## HUD’s Homelessness Agenda

**Increase incentives to get eligible homeless persons and families enrolled in mainstream service programs**
**Encourage better discharge planning so dischargees don’t become homeless at exit**

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## HUD’s Homelessness Agenda

**Encourage greater involvement of faith-based organizations**
**Provide added incentives to establish and implement HMIS in every funded Continuum of Care**

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## Results of 2003 Continuum of Care Competition

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## Ending Chronic Homelessness

- Past Performance
- Current CoC-wide Strategy
- Future CoC Actions

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## Encouraging More Housing 

- Funds for:		Housing		Services
- 1998			    41%                    55%

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## Encouraging More Housing

- Funds for:		Housing		Services
- 1998			41%			55%
- 2003			53%			42%

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## Encouraging More Housing – Especially Permanent Housing

|  | Permanent Housing | Transitional Housing | SSO |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2002 | 414 m | 349 m | 214 m |
| 2003 | 502 m | 398 m | 149 m |
|  | 21% increase | 14% increase | 30% decrease |

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## Continue to Serve Homeless Families

- Historical Trend
- 		<  50% of persons served are single
- 		>  50% of persons served are families

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## Incentivize Mainstream Resources 

- Describe detail strategy
- Report on actual performance
- 	(e.g. percent of persons enrolled)

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## Great Involvement with Faith-based Community

- 2002		469 projects	$141 million

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## Greater Involvement with Faith-based Community

| 2002 | 469 projects | $141 million |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2003 | 607 projects | $168 million |
|  | 29% increase | 19% increase |

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## HUD’s Strategy for HMIS Implementation

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## HMIS implementation is:

- Ambitious
- Collaborative
- Iterative
- Community Based

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## Congressional Direction on HMIS and HUD Implementation

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**Notes:**
Good morning,   
I will give you some addition overview information on HMIS implementation from HUD’s SNAPS program office side.    I will then talk about the Congressional direction we have and since it is one aspect of the background section of the proposed Notice, I will walk through that part of the Notice.  Paul will then pick up with the Notice’s discussion of key policy choices that the background section discusses.  

## Growth in HMIS

_**I**_** – ****Implementing****    **_**S**_**- ****Selecting****    **_**M**_**- ****Meeting****    **_**0**_**- ****Not considering**

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## 2001-2003 HMIS Projects

_** **_
**	**		  _Requested_       _Funded_
- 			     _#_      _$_	           _#_     _$_
- 2001       	    82    24m        49  13m
- 2002       	   135  35m	  83 25m** **
- 2003             204  33m        142  23m

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**Notes:**
Continuums been using the new HMIS authority to apply for funds Dedicated HMIS projects.   And where CoCs have placed their proposed projects above the pro rata need line we have been able to fund them.  
Some communities have used the shared project or user fee approach instead or in tandem with Dedicated project funding.  
Communities also are using CDBG, ESG, HOPWA , state, local funds  and private sector funds.  
The smaller often rural CoCs seem to behaving the most difficulties in finding resources, although this has been offset by one of the truly remarkable and I think very significant  trends in HMIS implementation...the movement to Multi-CoC HMIS collaborative implementations.  

## HMIS Collaborations

- Metro-wide
- Regional
- State-wide

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**Notes:**
We have found many CoCs  seeing the benefits of implementing a single HMIS in larger multi-CoC, metropolitan, regional or in Statewide collaborations. 

The advantages to such collaborations, while making the planning process more complex,  are likely to be cheaper implementations due to economies of scale and 
the promotion of better homeless information on a metro, regional or state basis.

HUD encourages these kind of implementations and we have tried to be flexible and will be flexible to help states and communities in carrying these collaborations off. 

## Multi-CoC Implementation

- State-wide CoC				6
- State-wide system
- 	with multiple CoCs 			11
- State-wide data-sharing
- 	with multiple databases 		4
- Potential state-wide
- 	_collaboration_ 				_12_
- 	TOTAL					33

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**Notes:**
This table given you some idea of movement toward statewide HMIS implementations and collaborations of one kind or another. 
Now to start off we have about 6 States that have only one Statewide Continuum.    

Next you see  there about 11 states forming a single HMIS implementation around a particular software.   These have been in middle and smaller states states. 

We next see that  CoCs in 4 states are looking to merge common data from different local CoC software applications.  

We are also aware of serious discussions in at least 11 states about collaborative HMIS implementations on one kind or another.    

## HMIS Standards

- Published in Federal Register, July 22, 2003
- Comments due September 22, 2003
- 170 commentators/700 pages/1600+ separate comments
- Final standards in review

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## HUD HMIS TA

- Aspen Systems TA continues until April
- QED Group is new TA contactor
- Full-time expert practitioner/PT consultant
- Update implementation and software guides
- Other TA products
- Coordination with Abt research effort

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## HMIS Research Project

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## Goal of the HMIS Research Project 

- To produce the first Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) using a representative sample of CDBG communities providing standardized homeless data

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## AHAR Research Project Objectives

- Build a nationally representative sample
- Develop reporting standards and definitions
- Assist communities to build HMIS capacity
- Collect HMIS reports from sample and other sites to produce first AHAR by 2005
- FAQ at http://www.hud.gov/office/cpd/homeless/hmis/index.cfm

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## Emergency Shelter Grant

- 6% increase:  $150m to $160m
- 21 gain and 16 lose ESG entitlement status
- HMIS participation by homeless providers
- IDIS reporting review

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