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State expands homelessness data system and sets numeric goals for prevention and housing outcomes
Summary
The California Interagency Council on Homelessness and HCD outlined improvements to HDIS (the statewide homelessness data warehouse), new dashboards, and the first statewide action-plan goals — including a prevention goal tied to foster care and reentry populations.
Officials from the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) told the Senate subcommittee on May 20 that the state has built the Homeless Data Integration System (HDIS) to centralize Continuum of Care (CoC) data and is publishing new dashboards and standardized performance measures.
Megan Marshall, executive officer of Cal ICH, and Sydney Bennett, Cal ICH’s director of research, described HDIS as a statewide warehouse that aggregates HMIS (local Homeless Management Information System) client- and project-level…
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