Tracking system performance helps to evaluate the effectiveness of homeless crisis response systems as they work to ensure that homelessness is rare, brief and one time. This webpage contains resources for evaluating and improving performance.
Performance technical assistance support
Homeless system performance initiatives work to improve housing outcomes for individuals at risk of homelessness and those who are currently experiencing homelessness. Below are tools and resources to help communities improve housing outcomes and make progress towards the statewide performance targets.
National research shows that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) are dramatically more likely than White people to experience homelessness, and similar research demonstrates that BIPOC experience additional disparities across various factors of housing security. Below are tools and resources to help communities address racial disparities among people experiencing homelessness.
The Community Behavioral Health Rental Assistance (CBRA) program provides a long-term rental subsidy for high-risk individuals and households with behavioral health conditions. The rental subsidy paired with supportive services is intended to divert people with complex behavioral health needs from potentially becoming unhoused and allows these individuals to live independently within their communities. The performance goal of the CBRA program include increasing percent exists to or retention of permanent housing.
In 2018, the Legislature funded a new Permanent Supportive Housing Operating, Maintenance, and Services (PSH-OMS) program that provides funding for PSH programs where there is a gap in operating or supportive service revenue. Beginning in State Fiscal Year 2023 (SFY23), an annual assessment is conducted on the funding vs expenditures of this program.