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HHHC executive committee delays endorsement of AHP and SHO ERF‑5 applications until applicants present prior outcomes
Summary
The Humboldt County Housing and Homelessness Coalition Executive Committee asked Arcata House Partnership and SoHum Housing Opportunities to present outcomes from prior ERF grants and provide specified metrics before the committee will vote on whether to endorse their ERF‑5 applications at the June 10, 2026 meeting.
At its May 27, 2026 meeting, the Humboldt County Housing and Homelessness Coalition (HHHC) Executive Committee requested that Arcata House Partnership (AHP) and SoHum Housing Opportunities (SHO) present measurable outcomes from their prior Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) projects before the committee votes on whether to endorse their ERF‑5 applications.
Committee members said they want to see specific, comparable data — including funding expended, number of people served, cost per person, average length of stay, state report data, proposed versus collected outcomes, and number of new shelter beds — alongside qualitative information about how programs operated. Robert Ward of DHHS offered assistance creating charts from HMIS data to support those presentations.
The request followed committee discussion of each organization’s prior ERF work. According to notes provided to the committee, AHP used an earlier ERF grant to clear an encampment and build individual rooms at a Boyd Road shelter; the rooms are not currently occupied because of plumbing problems, and roughly half of the people who had been in that encampment are now sheltered or housed by AHP or other providers. SHO’s prior ERF project involved purchasing an old grange in Garberville to create a safe camp with utilities; construction and permitting delayed use of that building, so SHO rented private homes and a local hotel to meet rapid rehousing (RRH) criteria. The record states that, as of April 1, of 51 people served by SHO, 62% were actively sheltered and SHO reported a 92% sheltering and housing rate.
Members discussed formalizing CoC policy that would require service providers to present documented outcomes of prior funding projects before receiving approval from the CoC for future awards through the same funding stream. Committee members did not take a final vote on the ERF‑5 letters of support; the EC scheduled both organizations to present at the start of the June 10 Executive Committee meeting and said it will vote after those presentations.
The committee’s next full meeting is scheduled for June 11, 2026, and the EC asked CCRP to circulate a draft general meeting agenda. The Executive Committee adjourned at 2:36 p.m.
