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HHS quarterly report: transitional housing and rapid rehousing show strong exits to permanent housing, LSA offers system-level view
Summary
The HHS quarterly performance review and a HUD-required Longitudinal Systems Analysis showed transitional housing and rapid rehousing produced higher rates of exits to permanent housing, with overall retention for people placed into permanent housing reported near 93%. The LSA covers projects with physical beds and highlights system pathways.
City Human Services staff presented a high-level overview of second-quarter performance reports (QPRs) for the HHS portfolio and summarized the HUD-required Longitudinal Systems Analysis (LSA) covering federal fiscal year 2024.
Ariel Anderson (HHS) framed the review by noting the LSA examines projects that have physical beds (for example, emergency shelter, transitional housing and permanent supportive housing) and complements other performance reporting. She said transitional-housing projects and rapid rehousing — or combinations of those interventions — showed improved long-term outcomes for exits to permanent housing compared with emergency-shelter pathways.
Amanda Martinez from the HMIS (Homeless Management Information System) team presented LSA findings. The LSA looked at the federal fiscal-year period from Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2024. Amanda said the LSA recorded roughly 5,000 households (about 7,000 people) served across bed-based projects during that period, with about 22% of exits from those projects going to permanent housing and a roughly 7% return-to-homelessness rate among those exits.
Anderson noted separately that projects placing people into permanent housing have about a 93% retention rate for those placements. Staff also said over 70% of rapid-rehousing households exited to permanent housing during the reporting period.
Why it matters: The combined QPR/LSA reporting gives the city evidence about which interventions produce the most permanent placements and where the system has unknown or incomplete exit data. Staff cautioned that the LSA covers only bed-based projects in HMIS and excludes some prevention and outreach interventions that serve large numbers of people.
Committee members asked about the “unknown” exit category and how providers might be encouraged to improve data entry. Amanda said some exits are genuinely unknown because participants leave without follow-up and case managers may lack a definitive outcome; staff said they are working with providers to reduce unknown outcomes and will publish project-level dashboards.
Staff said the city will post the dashboards and continue working with providers to align QPRs, HMIS reporting and contract expectations so funders and policymakers can compare performance across project types.
