Chronic Homelessness

Chronic Homelessness Webinar Series

HUD has prepared three brief webinars to assist CoCs and HMIS Lead Agencies understand how HMIS can be used to assist in identifying people who are experiencing chronic homelessness.

• Capturing the information about a client’s living situation in HMIS needed to calculate their chronic homeless status. Every HMIS-participating project has to record clients’ living situation and disability status in HMIS at project entry and can simply record that information based on client self-response.
• Using HMIS to document a client’s chronic homeless status for eligibility purposes. This is achieved by looking at a client’s entries and exits in HMIS, rather than the self-reported data collected at each project entry.
• Reporting on chronic homelessness combines these two concepts by looking at self-reported data AND enrollment histories for each client to generate reports on the people experiencing chronic homelessness in your CoC.

These webinars are intended to clarify the fundamental distinctions between these concepts and to provide information that can be woven into appropriate provider and end-user trainings.

Resources

• FY 2018 CoC Competition Focus: DedicatedPLUS - Explaining the New Strategy for Ending Chronic Homelessness
  Date Published: July 2018
• Client-Level System Use and Length of Time Homeless Report
  Date Published: April 2018
• Flowchart of HUD’s Definition of Chronic Homelessness
  Date Published: November 2016
• Sample Chronic Homelessness Documentation Checklist
  Date Published: November 2016
• Notice CPD-16-11: Prioritizing Persons Experiencing Chronic Homelessness and Other Vulnerable Homeless Persons in Permanent Supportive Housing
  Date Published: July 2016
• FY 2016 CoC Competition Focus: Ending Chronic Homelessness
  Date Published: July 2016
• Criteria and Benchmark for Achieving the Goal of Ending Chronic Homelessness
  Date Published: June 2016
• Definition of "Chronic Homelessness" Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  Date Published: April 2016
• Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH): Defining "Chronically Homeless" Final Rule Webinar Slides
  Date Published: January 2016
• Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH): Defining "Chronically Homeless" Final Rule
  Date Published: December 2015
• SNAPS In Focus: Final Rule on Defining "Chronically Homeless" Part II: Policy and Practical Implications of the New Definition
  Date Published: December 2015
• SNAPS In Focus: Final Rule on Defining "Chronically Homeless" Part I: How We Got Here
  Date Published: December 2015
• Opening Doors: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
  Date Published: June 2015
• Early Childhood Self-Assessment Tool for Family Shelters
  Date Published: December 2014
• Notice CPD-14-012: Prioritizing Persons Experiencing Chronic Homelessness in Permanent Supportive Housing and Recordkeeping Requirements for Documenting Chronic Homeless Status
  Date Published: July 2014
• SNAPS Weekly Focus: Giving Priority to Chronically Homeless Persons
  Date Published: July 2013
• The Family Options Study Interim Report
  Date Published: May 2013
• Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program Proposed Rule (Federal Register Version)
  Date Published: March 2013
• Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program Proposed Rule (Formatted Version)
  Date Published: March 2013
• Convening on the Definition of Chronic Homelessness, May 2012 - Summary
  Date Published: May 2012