What does it measure?

Ending homelessness also means helping participants in shelter and permanent housing programs avoiding returning to homelessness. In Alameda County we are striving to decrease the proportion of people who exit shelter or housing programs to homelessness.

How does it measure?

Question 23c on the Annual Performance Report, “Exit Destination” provides information about the number of individuals—adults and children— active in transitional housing during the date range who exit to homeless destinations. Homeless destinations include exiting to:

• Emergency shelter
• Transitional housing
• A place not meant for people to live (a vehicle, abandoned building, outside, etc.)

The numerator in the equation is the sum of the number of individuals who moved into a one of the above situations recorded in the tables, “Exit Destination” and “Exit Destination” The denominator is the sum of the total number of persons from each table minus the total persons whose destinations exclude them from the calculation. Excluded from the calculation are persons who are deceased or who exit to a foster care home or foster care group home; hospital or residential psychiatric medical facility; residential project or halfway house with no homeless criteria; and long-term care facility or nursing home.

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