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Funding and Data HUD funding (grants) • Continuum of Care = $550,000/year o Permanent Supportive Housing (Cardinal Innovations & UNC) • Emergency Solutions Grant= $190,000/year • Emergency Shelter (IFC) • Rapid Re-Housing (DSS) Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) • All grantees required to enter data in HMIS • 2015 new NC HMIS administrator = reliable data Performance Indicators 1. Reduce the length of time people are homeless (target < 30 days). 2. Reduce returns to homelessness. 3. Reduce the overall number of persons who experience homelessness. 4. Increase job and income growth for persons who are homeless. OCPEH 2015 Plan to End Homelessness HOUSING 1. Increase housing opportunities. • Rapid Re-Housing • Permanent Supportive Housing • Affordable rental housing (esp. < 30% AMI) 2. Increase number of landlords that will rent to people experiencing/at risk of homelessness. 3. Increase Town of Chapel Hill public housing units and Orange County Housing Choice Vouchers available to homeless. 4. Implement Coordinated Entry System Commissioner Rich asked if she understood correctly that the Housing Choice Voucher Program has been closed for five years, and no one is on the list. Jamie Rohe said it is actually a very full list, but it is a waiting list that is closed. She said the list has about 1,600 people on it, and it takes about ten years to receive a voucher due to very slow turn over. Commissioner Rich asked if the 1,600 people are still in Orange County. Jamie Rohe says the list is purged and updated on a regular basis. Commissioner Rich asked if the list were to be reopened, to whom it would be targeted. Jamie Rohe said neither the County nor the Town of Chapel Hill have been approached about a collaboration. She said there is a lot of guidance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) about how local housing authorities and partnerships to end homelessness can work together. She said she has only just begun to look into this potential collaboration and the best practices by which to achieve it. She said one possibility, that caught her attention, was the option of opening an additional waiting list that is targeted at a particular group, such as those experiencing homelessness. Chair McKee said he does not understand how starting a new waiting list offers much help, when there is no housing available for the people on the existing waiting list.