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MDHI and HOST brief committee on HMIS, coordinated entry and a $425,000 prevention planning grant
Summary
Metro Denver Homeless Initiative described how the Homeless Management Information System and One Home coordinated entry work across the region, reported more than 34,000 unduplicated individuals served in 2024, and said Denver and Adams County received $425,000 in planning funds for a targeted prevention pilot.
Metro Denver Homeless Initiative (MDHI) and HOST briefed the Community Planning and Housing Committee on April 14 about the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), the One Home coordinated entry system and a new prevention planning grant.
Jason Johnson, executive director of MDHI, said the Colorado HMIS is a shared data platform used by continuums of care across the state to compile client-level service records and produce unduplicated counts of people served. "Over the course of 2024... we saw more than 34,000 unduplicated individuals being served by our homeless response system," Johnson said, clarifying that the number covers the seven-county Metro Denver region rather than Denver alone.
Sophia Vigil, MDHI’s director of strategy and impact, described the One Home coordinated entry process — access, assessment, prioritization and referral — and said about 4,500 people are active in coordinated entry with roughly 1,200 vacancies entered last year. She said prioritization is community-driven and intended to match limited housing resources to the most vulnerable households.
Johnson also outlined a new planning award: a $425,000 "Right at Home" grant for Denver and Adams County to design a targeted prevention pilot that aims to eliminate single-day homelessness for roughly 1,000–1,500 households. He said the State of Homelessness report using 2025 data and the annual point-in-time count will be released in about a month and will add further detail to the committee’s understanding of trends.
Committee members raised questions about family homelessness and data gaps. Members noted that families may be "hidden" (couch-surfing, living with relatives) and asked whether HMIS captures those cases. MDHI and HOST staff said data quality has improved for family programs but acknowledged gaps remain across HMIS, McKinney-Vento school reporting and health-system records. Jason Johnson offered to follow up with staff reports and noted that MDHI convenes regional partners to align data, funding and program priorities.
The briefing focused on system coordination and data-driven decision-making rather than formal committee action; committee members requested a follow-up update, including progress on Medicaid work-requirement coordination and the rollout of the Right at Home initiative.
