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By-name list shows small declines in outdoor homelessness; county aims for monthly snapshots
Summary
HEART navigator Dante Young presented April by-name list criteria and data showing slight reductions in outdoor sleeping; the group plans to refine real-time reporting and sustain weekly case conferences to target housing and services.
Dante Young, a HEART navigator, presented a by-name list update May 8 showing small declines in the county’s measured outdoor homelessness and outlining how the list is maintained and used.
Nut graf: The by-name list is intended as a monthly, near–real-time snapshot that mirrors point-in-time (PIT) measures and coordinates weekly case conferencing to match people with housing and services. Young said the list helps partners identify individuals and households who meet a shared definition of literal homelessness and have had contact in a reporting month.
Young said the by-name list uses two primary inclusion criteria: people must meet the definition of literal homelessness (places not meant for habitation, emergency shelter, transitional housing or hotel vouchers paid by a service agency) and they must have been contacted or received a service in Douglas County during the reporting month. Using that approach, Young presented comparative data: in the January 2025 PIT the team recorded 25 people sleeping in vehicles, six sleeping outside and 32 sheltered; an April snapshot showed the number sleeping outside fell from six to four.
The presentation included family-level detail: in April the county recorded seven households with children in sheltered placements, zero sleeping outside and two households sleeping in vehicles. Young said the county has met “functional zero” qualifications for veterans and that weekly case-conferencing meetings are used to coordinate housing placement, mental-health referrals and employment or benefits services.
Young outlined next steps for the list: improve data accuracy, expand resource knowledge among navigators, work toward real-time reporting and continue the goal of functional zero for both families and single adults. County staff also noted the list does not currently include some people the system is tracking earlier in prevention work (for example, those at imminent risk of eviction) because the by-name list intentionally mirrors PIT definitions for reporting.
Questions from the meeting clarified how institutional stays are counted: people incarcerated or in hospitals are counted as homeless for the day before they enter and the day they exit unless they remain in an institution for 90 days or more, in which case they are not counted as unsheltered while institutionalized.
Ending: Presenters emphasized the list’s role in coordinating rapid re-housing and shelter placements and said staff will continue to refine reporting and coordination with hospitals and detention facilities to improve exit planning and reduce returns to homelessness.
