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State housing office outlines outreach contracts and point‑in‑time count as committee passes HCR116/HR108
Summary
Jun Yang of the Statewide Office on Housing, Homelessness and Housing Solutions described two outreach contracts (a DHS-managed statewide contract and a separate encampment-focused contract from the statewide office) and said a January point‑in‑time count report is pending; the committee passed HCR116/HR108 as recommended.
Jun Yang testified in support of HCR116/HR108 and described the state's coordinated outreach work for the capital/Chinatown area and other targeted locations.
Yang said the office partners with a Department of Human Services statewide outreach contract that splits the island into two outreach teams and that the office also runs a separate contract focused specifically on encampment outreach to accelerate shelter placement. "We have an outreach contract ... 1 specifically through the Department of Human Services that is a statewide contract, an island wide 1 that, has split the 2, parts of the island into 2 major outreach teams," Yang said. Yang added that the office deployed an additional team to work with established outreach organizations to get people into shelter more quickly.
On the point-in-time count, Yang said a count was completed in January and that the full report is expected in the coming months; Yang offered to supply district-level counts to the committee when the report is available. The committee accepted the testimony and subsequently passed HCR116/HR108 as recommended by the chair.
