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Shelter House and CSH present needs assessment estimating about 300-unit supportive-housing gap in Johnson County
Summary
Shelter House and the Corporation for Supportive Housing told Johnson County leaders on Oct. 20 that preliminary modeling shows a need for roughly 300 units of permanent supportive housing—about 261 for individuals and 36 for families—and warned of near-term funding cliffs that could endanger support for existing households.
Shelter House Executive Director Chrissy Cangonelli and consultants from the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) presented a preliminary needs assessment on Oct. 20 to the joint Johnson County entities, concluding that Johnson County appears to need roughly 300 additional units of permanent supportive housing (PSH) to meet current demand.
CSH senior staff described the methodology: combining Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data with interviews of local stakeholders across behavioral health, physical health, law enforcement and other sectors to estimate the number of households whose needs align with PSH’s evidence-based model. Gabe Schuster, CSH senior program manager, said the modeling accounts for current inventory, annual turnover and potential system-efficiency improvements.
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