What does it measure?

Enrollment in a rapid re-housing project is the beginning of a housing search. As a system, we aspire to keep the time between rapid re-housing program enrollment and housing move-in as short as possible. For this reason, we track the proportion of households with two or less months between program enrollment and permanent housing move in.

How does it measure?

Question 22c on the Annual Performance Report, “RRH Length of Time between Project Start Date and Housing Move-in Date” counts the number of days that pass between the date a household is enrolled in a rapid re-housing data and the date of their housing move in. The numerator is the number of households with 60 or less days between the project enrollment date and housing move-in date. The denominator is the total number of households enrolled in rapid re-housing. All data is reported through the HMIS. Many programs that provide housing and support resources dedicated to serving homeless people in Alameda County also use HMIS. However, this number does not include people served by organizations that do not participate in HMIS.

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