What does it measure?

In permanent supportive housing, ending homelessness includes keeping people housed. Maintaining permanent housing—measured as a high housing retention rate and ensuring that those who exit permanent supportive housing do so to another permanent housing situation—is an indicator that our system is effectively ending homelessness for these households.

How does it measure?

Question 7b2 of the HUD System Performance Measures, “Change in exit to or retention of permanent housing,” focuses on the proportion of individuals who successfully exit or retain permanent housing. The numerator in this equation is the number of persons in permanent supportive housing projects who either remained in the PSH projects or exited to permanent housing destinations. The denominator is the number of persons active in permanent supportive housing projects during the reporting period. For more information see the most recent System Performance Measures: Data Submission Guide from HUD.

This performance measure is reported in cumulative, quarterly reporting periods that begin October 1st and end September 30th. The target is an annual.