innovative rent assistance preventing & ending homelessness replicable models
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City of Portland Bureau of Housing & Community Development. Innovative Rent Assistance Preventing & Ending Homelessness Replicable Models. National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference July 2006. Heather Lyons - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Innovative Rent Assistance Preventing & Ending Homelessness
Replicable ModelsNational Alliance to End Homelessness Conference
July 2006
City of Portland
Bureau of Housing & Community Development
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Heather LyonsCity of Portland, Bureau of Housing and Community Development421 SW 6th Ave., Suite 1100Portland, OR 97204503-823-2396
Evaluator: Transitions to Housing ProgramThomas L. Moore, Ph.D.Herbert & Louis, LLCPO Box 304Wilsonville, OR 97070-0304503-625-6100
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Portland’s Experience
• Advocates push for rent assistance• Transitions to Housing (T2H)
Program - 2001• Outcomes bring $ and support• Short Term Rent Assistance
Redesign (STRA)• Adapting the Model for Chronically
Homeless: Key Not A Card - Fall 2005
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Flexibility Key to Model
• Collaborative decisions on core elements (eligibility, subsidy limits & options, follow-up, outcome measures and data design)
• Support independence of agencies• Outcomes = Funding • Adapt as needed
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To provide flexible and outcome focused rent assistance to use as a “tool” to:
1) Prevent families and individuals from experiencing homelessnessAND2) End the experience of homeless by placing
people quickly into permanent housing
T2H - Purpose
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• Diverse partnering agencies
• Flexibility and timeliness of assistance & service package
• Standardized evaluation protocol, outcome goals and follow-up intervals
• Limited regulations and prompts to spend more and help out for more time
• Adapts to fit agency mission & capacity
T2H - Project Features
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• Homeless, or at an immediate risk of being homeless, or living in unsafe conditions
• Gross family income 20% (now 30%) or less than Area Median Income
• Residing or planning to reside within a geographic limit
• Currently not residing in subsidized housing
T2H - Eligibility
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T2H - How it works
• Application & move-in fees• Security deposits• Rent/Mortgage subsidy (lump sum,
tiered, tapered, or constant)• Payment of housing-related debt to
eliminate barriers to permanent housing
• Generous Max subsidies by unit size
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• Common dataset across all agencies with ongoing group evaluation meetings
• Enrollment; six, twelve, and eighteen-month follow-up; and case closing data collected by providers
• Follow-up waves based on date of enrollment
• Case closing based on final payment of rent assistance
T2H - Evaluation Protocol
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• 1749 households enrolled since inception of program through June 30, 2005
• 73% adult households; 27% families with kids
• 25% of the primary “clients” have a past felony conviction or they were on parole or probation at enrollment
• $1,250 average expenditure per HH
T2H - Findings
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• 80% permanent housed at 6 months
• 73% permanent housed at 12 months
• 65% permanent housed at 18 months
T2H - Findings - Overall Outcomes as of June 30, 2005
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• Data captured in evaluation provides information on housing instability and secures future funding
• Flexibility with Accountability is key
• Homeless Prevention and “Housing First” model is cost effective and works for multiple populations & agencies
• Collaboration across diverse agencies provides learning opportunities for all
T2H - Lessons Learned
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Adapting the Model
Short-term rent assistance redesign (STRA)
&“Key Not A Card” rent assistance to help end chronic homelessness
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STRA - Challenge
• 28 different agencies, 6 different funding sources, 3 jurisdictions, and 1 housing authority
• Contradictory eligibility criteria and program design
• Multiple administrators and processes
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STRA - Process
• Part of 10 Year Plan – Systems change activities
• 6 month long community based process• 6 month long jurisdictional negotiations• Final selection of administrative entity
and approval by City Council and County Board of Commissioners
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STRA - Process
• Community and Jurisdictional process led to agreement on:• Program Model• Outcomes, Evaluation and Data
Collection• System Supports (i.e., services)• Allocations Formula• Unified System and Administrator
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Key Not A Card - KNAC
• Focus on moving chronically homeless people off the street and into housing
• Up to 18 months of rent assistance with average aid of $8,000 per household
• Flexibility for providers – within a “Housing First” framework
• Outcome Focused - 12 month follow-up after end of subsidy
• Started October 1, 2005
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KNAC Funding Recipients
• Shelter agency to assist 25 CH women• Street engagement agency to assist 25 CH
high-profile street dwellers identified by police
• Multi-service agency to assist 22 CH adults. • Police select out of the 35 homeless adults with
highest arrest rate
• Collaborative of 8 agencies to assist 20 CH families with kids.
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KNAC - Demographics
• Male - 55%• Female - 45%
• 18-21 - 3%• 22-35 - 16%• 36-54 - 74%• 55+ - 7%
• White - 61%• African-Am - 25%• Asian - 3%• Native-Am - 10%• Latino - 1%
• 16 children under age 17• 14 were employed at entry• 8 veterans
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KNAC - Outcomes
• 144 people in 119 households have been housed (1 project starts with transitional housing)• of these, 99 people in 74 households
have moved into permanent housing
• 98.5% remained in stable permanent housing
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• Eviction Courts• Restraining Order Programs• Corrections - to support families after head of household is
incarcerated• Mental Health - outreach/residential programs• Hospitals • Community Crisis Lines• Apartment Associations• Government Programs (TANF, SSI/D, Unemployment)• Housing Authorities• Employers• Substance Abuse Programs - outpatient/residential programs• Foster Care System• Head Start programs and Public Schools• And on, and on, and on
Where else could this work?
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Thank You
Copies of the Transitions to Housing final evaluation and “Home Again: A 10 Year Plan
to End Homelessness in Portland and Multnomah County are available online at:
www.portlandonline.com/bhcd
For specific information to help replicate or adapt T2H, STRA, or KNAC - please contact Heather Lyons 503-823-2396 or Liora Berry
503-823-2391