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

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$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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