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HUD Homeless Program Data
Karen DeBlasio
Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs
Overview of Presentation
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New authorizing legislation
SNAPS data collection
Annual Homeless Assessment Report
HUD’s Homeless Data Exchange (HDX)
HUD’s Homeless Resource Exchange (HRE)
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HEARTH History
• Signed into law on May 20, 2009
• Reauthorizes HUD’s McKinney-Vento Programs
• Six sets of Regulations were developed:
• Definition of Homeless
• Continuum of Care Program
• Emergency Solutions Grants Program
• Conforming Amendments to the Consolidated
Plan
• Homeless Management Information Systems
• Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program
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Federal Strategic Plan
 Four goals as established in Opening Doors:
Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End
Homelessness:
1) Finish the job of ending chronic homelessness by 2015.
2) Prevent and end homelessness among Veterans by
2015.
3) Prevent and end homelessness among families, youth,
and children by 2020.
4) Set a path to ending all types of homelessness.
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HUD Data Collection
 Continuums of Care (CoCs) must use a
locally-administered Homeless Management
Information System (HMIS) to collection
client-level data.
 CoCs provide aggregate data to HUD via:
 Annual Performance Reports (APR) (program
level)
 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR)
(community level)
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HUD Data Collection
 Data collected include:
 Disability status
 Chronic health conditions
 Where did you spend the night before (literally
homeless?)
 HEARTH requires coordinated assessment
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HUD Data Collection
 APR
 Program level report
 Data on clients served and exited
 Documents changes in status during
participation in program
 Submitted once a year via e-snaps
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HUD Data Collection
 AHAR
 CoC-wide report
 Includes data from Point in Time count and
HMIS data
 Documents number of individuals and families
served in shelters and counted during PIT as
“literally homeless”
 Submitted quarterly via Homeless Data
Exchange (HDX)
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HUD Data Sources
 Homeless Data Exchange (HDX)
 Only CoCs can access their data on HDX
 CoCs can run reports based on their PIT and
HMIS data
 Submitted quarterly via the HDX
 www.hudhdx.info
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HUD Data Sources
 Homeless Resource Exchange (HRE)
 Public website
 National level reports (AHAR)
 Community level reports (by CoC)
 www.hudhre.info
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