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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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