Resource Best Practice: Data Collection and Assessment
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Calculating Change: The Continuing Conversation on Homelessness Data Reform
Over the last year, the Alliance reached out to people in the homelessness field to gather ideas for data reform. The result was a recent report: “Calculating Change: Future Directions for Homelessness Data Use and Reporting.”
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Contributing to How Race and Gender are Defined Within Homelessness
At the end of October, HUD announced proposed changes to the race, ethnicity, and gender identity data elements within the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS).
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The SYSTEM Series
The SYSTEM (Strengthening Your System to Energize Momentum) Series is designed to help communities more effectively end homelessness by providing tools to help communities
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Calculating Change: Future Directions for Homelessness Data Use and Reporting
Data collection is crucial to understanding, addressing, and alleviating homelessness across the United States. The current system of…
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Exploring the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 Emergency Housing Resources
New federal COVID-19 relief resources include unprecedented investments in Emergency Housing Vouchers and Emergency Rental Assistance.
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Data Snapshot: Comparing Point in Time Counts between 2019 and 2020
The 2020 Point in Time count reflected a 2.2 percent increase in overall homelessness compared to 2019. However, states and Continuums of Care (CoCs) showed significant variation in the…
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Conducting an Unsheltered Point-in-Time Count During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dan Treglia, PhD MPP; Daphne Chimbel BSW; Rebecca Brown, MD, MPH University of Pennsylvania…
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Voices from the Field: COVID-19 and Recession Surveys, Interviews, and Data
The Alliance’s Homelessness Research Institute has conducted surveys with Continuums of Care (CoC) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to assess their most pressing needs, and identify any..
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The Alliance’s Racial Equity Network Toolkit
In 2018, the Alliance formed a Racial Equity Network (REN) of local and state systems and program leaders and advocates to inspire more engagement about best practices, data collection, and action steps at the systems level.
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Homeless System Evaluator Tool
The Center for Capacity Building developed a Homeless System Evaluator Tool. This tool is designed to help communities determine how well they are preventing and ending homelessness based on data from their system.