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City sets occupancy targets for new supportive housing; analysis finds lease‑up delays
Summary
The committee reviewed a CAO/consultant analysis that sets a 90% occupancy within 90 days target for city‑funded permanent supportive housing (PSH) and presented baseline data showing slow lease‑up for a recent cohort of units.
A CAO consultant told the Homeless Strategy Committee on Feb. 12 that the city will adopt performance targets for permanent supportive housing (PSH) utilization and that baseline data show many new city‑funded PSH developments are leasing up more slowly than the target.
Sarah Solon, the CAO's consultant on performance targets, said the city's goal is for new city‑funded PSH to be 90 percent occupied within 90 days of availability and for turnovers to be filled within 90 days thereafter. "We selected that performance target because this is already the one operating regionally," Solon said.
Solon reviewed a baseline cohort (properties that became ready to occupy between April 1, 2024 and September 2024). The city invested about $94 million in that cohort to open 16 developments with a total of 839 city‑funded PSH homes; 769 of those units were matched through the coordinated entry system and were included in the analysis.
Key baseline findings Solon presented: - Within 90 days of availability the 769 matched units received 186 new residents (about 24 percent of the cohort); only 2 of 16 properties met the 90%/90‑day target. - As of the report date there were 556 residents in the 769 matched units (roughly 70 percent occupancy for the cohort). - Across the full Prop HHH portfolio (5,526 restricted units) 94 percent are occupied; 91 units have been vacant for more than 90 days (removing Skid Row Housing Trust properties raises occupancy to 95 percent). - About 30.7 percent of interim housing participants were in city‑funded interim housing during the baseline period, but only 26.7 percent of exits to permanent housing came from those city‑funded interim beds, indicating disproportionate exits.
Solon and staff said the baseline required substantial data reconciliation across LAHSA, LAHD, HACLA and county DHS; they identified discrepancies in occupancy counts depending on the data source. LAHSA staff confirmed geolocated client data exist and that the initial analysis used a four‑mile radius around each new PSH property; LAHSA said it can produce a city‑wide geolocation pull to show how many new residents came from within the city.
Actions or decisions: the committee did not vote on these technical recommendations. Staff committed to reconciling data discrepancies, to track the cohort of new PSH units opening Oct. 1 onwards, and to report monthly occupancy and placement metrics to the committee. The CLA said it will present recommendations on improving coordinated entry processes in the coming month.
Ending: Committee members supported the use of the 90%/90‑day target and asked staff to accelerate data reconciliation so the targets can inform the next budget and Measure A input processes.
