Post on 31-May-2020
Reducing Homelessness Using a Rapid Re-housing
Approach
Outcomes, Community Examples, and Evaluation
Source: Data from 14 Continuums in seven states that prepared Evaluators for National Alliance to End Homelessness Performance Improvement Clinics in 2011-2012 compiled by Focus Strategies
Shelter Transitional Housing
Rapid Re-Housing
Percent of Exits that are to Permanent Housing for Single Adults in 14
Communities
Percent of Exits that are to Permanent Housing for Persons in Families with
Children in 14 Communities
Source: Data from 14 Continuums in seven states that prepared Evaluators for National Alliance to End Homelessness Performance Improvement Clinics in 2011-2012 compiled by Focus Strategies
Shelter Transitional Housing
Rapid Re-Housing
Rapid Re-housing: Cost Effective
$429 $2,213
$9,660
$34,345
$1,912 $3,904
$-
$5,000
$10,000
$15,000
$20,000
$25,000
$30,000
$35,000
$40,000
Cost per exit Cost per exit to PH
Singles in Shelters
Singles in TH
Singles in RRH
Aver
age
Cost
Per
Exi
t
Rapid Re-housing: High Rate of Exits to PH
PERFORMANCE PURCHASED – FAMILIES
EMERGENCY SHELTER
$7,348 per exit to permanent
housing
30% exiting to permanent
housing
11% recidivism rate
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING
$29,379 per exit to permanent
housing
71% exiting to permanent
housing
2% recidivism rate
RAPID RE-HOUSING$5,262 per exit to
permanent housing
89% exiting to permanent
housing
2% recidivism rate
$1,285
$8,283$7,619
$18,776
$4,288 $5,775
Shelter Transitional Rapid Rehousing
Source: Data from 14 Continuums in seven states that prepared Evaluators for National Alliance to End Homelessness Performance Improvement Clinics in 2011-2012 compiled by Focus Strategies
All Exits Permanent Housing Exits
Average Cost Per Exit for Single Adults in 14 Communities
Average Cost Per Exit for Families with Children in 14 Communities
Permanent Housing Exits
Source: Data from 14 Continuums in seven states that prepared Evaluators for National Alliance to End Homelessness Performance Improvement Clinics in 2011-2012 compiled by Focus Strategies
All Exits
$2,761
$10,067$10,656
$22,214
$3,089 $4,111
Shelter Transitional Rapid Rehousing
Rate of Return to Homelessness Within 12 Months of Exit for 7 Communities
Source: Data from seven Continuums in four states that prepared Evaluators for National Alliance to End Homelessness Performance Improvement Clinics in 2011-2012 compiled by Focus Strategies
Singles People in Families with Children
A Community of Hope (Washington, DC)
Of 27 families that received rapid re-housing services and then exited:
•78% had subsidies for 12 months or less•Average 10 months of case management•Between April 2010 and July 2011, 0 re-entered shelter
Community Example
Hennepin County/Minneapolis, MN• Target families with moderate to severe
housing barriers• Families assessed within a week• Case managers do housing, criminal, and
credit checks• 91% of families did not return to shelter in a
year• 85% of families did not return to shelter after
two years
Community Example
Salt Lake City/County, UT• Served 627 families between October 2009
and May 2011• Target families in shelter or living on the streets• Shelters shifted toward rapid re-housing
focus• Used TANF, HPRP, State, and County funds for
program• Only 8% of families served returned to shelter
Community Example
Program Design: Evaluation
• How quickly are households moving into housing?
• How many households remain in their housing for a year after moving in and 6 months after assistance ends?
• How many households are returning to shelter?
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