FACTS & DATA
All local agencies receiving homeless assistance funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) use a shared electronic database called the Homeless Management Information System, or HMIS. Threshold CoC partners with the Institute for Community Alliances, our area’s lead HMIS agency, responsible for system oversight and administration for our CoC.
HMIS allows us to track and monitor:
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The Number of Folx We Serve
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Program Outcomes
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Data Trends
This allows us to understand community data and compare them with national numbers. With this information, our team is better able to offer support, quality improvements, and technical assistance to local housing and nonprofit homelessness service providers. Data tracking is key to our ongoing objective of preventing and ending homelessness for all.
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES
The HUD System Performance Measures (SPMs) is an annual report that analyzes community-wide outcomes and the performance of our coordinated system of care. All projects that enter data into the HMIS are included in our SPM's, which are submitted to HUD annually and used to measure outcomes and determine federal funding allocations.
Recent SPM data is as follows:
PIT COUNT
The Point-In-Time (PIT) count is a single-night count of all unhoused persons in Threshold CoC’s geographical area of Douglas, Sarpy, and Pottawattamie Counties. The PIT Count allows communities to gain a snapshot of local homelessness "on any given night." Required by HUD, the PIT Count must be completed annually during the last 10 days of January.
Recent MACCH PIT data is as follows:
HOUSING INVENTORY CHART
The Housing Inventory Chart (HIC) is an inventory of all beds dedicated for use by unhoused folx in Threshold CoC's geographical area of Douglas, Sarpy, and Pottawattamie Counties. The HIC allows us to analyze local bed resources and identify service gaps based on homeless data procured through the Point-In-Time Count and annual service data.
Recent HIC data is as follows: