Measuring Success: Progress Report on Ending Homelessness in Alameda County

On April 25th, 2012, an EveryOne Home Community Meeting was held to review the 2011 Achieving Outcomes report. The final report includes the feedback we received from that Community meeting. EveryOne Home and community stakeholders celebrate the ongoing improvements in performance and in capacity to collect and analyze data across the system. Especially noteworthy are:

• the increases in exits with permanent housing
• the increased rates of people exiting the system with some income who entered with none,
• the retention rates in permanent supportive housing,
• the reduced lengths of stay in shelters and transitional housing, and
• a return to homelessness rate lower than the national average.

A focus of 2012 will be on further improving reporting capabilities. In addition to generating data about both stayers and exiters from programs, community members want to see the results as real numbers as well as percentages, and more detail about exits from permanent housing and returns to homelessness. Community stakeholders praised the system’s progress in collaboration, while calling for further coordination as well as increased understanding of the interconnectedness of the outcomes, programs and sectors in our system. 

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2011 Achieving Outcomes Report [PDF]
Updated 2010 Achieving Outcomes Report [PDF]