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2 12/5/2013 Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness Homeless Housing Needs Assessment This report responds to the Orange County Board of County Commissioner's request to assess the Emergency Shelter needs of our community. Definitionsof homeless housing types: • Emergency Shelter: short-term shelter,often up to thirty(30)or sixty(60)days. • Transitional Housing: long-term shelter providing increased case management and services,often up to two(2)years. • Permanent Supportive Housing rental housing for people who are physically and/or mentally disabled and homeless and not capable of living independently; supportive services are provided and tailored to individual needs. • Rapid Re-Housing(F41-I): homeless people are thoroughly assessed and housed in subsidized and non-subsidized apartments and receive services to help them become self-reliant; program enrollment can be three(3)months to two(2)years. NOTE Department of housing and Urban Development (HUD)data demonstrates that FR-1 programs are highly successful and cost effective for ending homelessness and has determined it to be a best practice. The Inter-Faith Council for Social Service(IFQ)has begun site work on its new Community House that will primarily provide Transitional Housing for up to 52 men; the facility will also provide Emergency Shelter for up to 17 men when there are adverse health, safety, or weather conditions. The IFCiswilling to suspend Emergency Shelter services if/when another Emergency Shelter facility is operating in Chapel Hill or Carrboro. Unmet Need Calculation In order to determinethe unmet need for all housing typesand homeless services IFCs planned Community House must be considered within the context of our overall homeless system. HUD requires communities that receive federal homeless housing funding to conduct an annual Unmet Need Calculation: Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing staff and homeless street outreach workers are asked to estimate the percentage of their dients that need Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing, or Permanent Supportive Housing to ultimately resolve their homeless situation. Note that HUD considers ff'l to be a best practice for housing many people who would have been served with transitional housing,HUD has not yet incorporated RW into its Unmet Need Calculation which was last updated in 2011 (there hasn't been notice when it intends to do so). For the 2013 Unmet Need Calculation,staff estimated that about 10%of the Emergency Shelter residents in Orange County(6.7 out of 67 residents at the January Point-in-Time Count) needed Emergency Shelter to ultimately resolve their homeless situation while 90%needed either Transitional Housing, Rapid FL-Housing or Permanent Supportive Housing. No unsheltered homeless people or Transitional Housing residentswere estimated by the homeless street outreach worker/staff to need Emergency Shelter to end their homelessness. Here are the findings: