The Following are project types per HUD’s HMIS Data Standards Manual 2020
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Project Types:
- Coordinated Entry: A project* that administers the continuum’s centralized or coordinated process to coordinate assessment and referral of individuals and families seeking housing or services, including use of a comprehensive and standardized assessment tool.*This is not a “project” in the traditional sense as it may more accurately reflect a system or process, but project is used because that is how data is typically collected in HMIS.
- Day Shelter: A project that offers daytime facilities and services (no lodging) for persons who are homeless.
- Emergency Shelter: A project that offers temporary shelter (lodging) for the homeless in general or for specific populations of the homeless. Requirements and limitations may vary by program and will be specified by the funder.
- Homelessness Prevention: A project that offers services and/or financial assistance necessary to prevent a person from moving into an emergency shelter or place not meant for human habitation.
- Other: A project that offers services, but does not provide lodging, and cannot otherwise be categorized as another project type, per above. Any project that provides only stand-alone supportive services (other than outreach or coordinated entry) and has no associated housing outcomes should be typed as ‘Other.’ For example, a project funded to provide childcare for persons in permanent housing or a dental care project funded to serve homeless clients should be typed ‘Other.’ A project funded to provide ongoing case management with associated housing outcomes should be typed ‘Services Only.’
- PH – Housing Only: A project that offers permanent housing for persons who are homeless, but does not make supportive services available as part of the project.
- PH – Housing with Services (no disability required for entry): A project that offers permanent housing and supportive services to assist homeless persons to live independently, but does not limit eligibility to individuations with disabilities or families in which one adult or child has a disability.
- PH – Permanent Supportive Housing (disability required for entry): A project that offers permanent housing and supportive services to assist homeless persons with a disability (individuals with disabilities or families in which one adult or child has a disability) to live independently.
- PH – Rapid ReHousing: A permanent housing project that provides housing relocation and stabilization services and short- and/or medium-term rental assistance as necessary to help a homeless individual or family move as quickly as possible into permanent housing and achieve stability in that housing.
- Safe Haven: A project that offers supportive housing that (1) serves hard to reach homeless persons with severe mental illness who came from the streets and have been unwilling or unable to participate in supportive services; (2) provides 24-hour residence for eligible persons for an unspecified period; (3) has an overnight capacity limited to 25 or fewer persons; and (4) provides low demand services and referrals for the residents.
- Services Only: A project that offers only stand-alone supportive services (other than outreach or coordinated entry) to address the special needs of participants (such as childcare, employment assistance, and transportation services) and has associated housing outcomes. If the Services Only project is affiliated with any one of the following:
- One residential project AND
- Does not offer to provide services for all the residential project clients; OR
- Only serves clients for a portion of their project stay (e.g.: provides classes, OR
- Information sharing is not allowed between residential projects and service providers.
- Multiple residential projects of the same project type (e.g. multiple PH:PSH) AND
- Does not serve all the residential project clients; OR
- Information sharing is not allowed between residential projects and service providers.
- Multiple residential projects of different project types (e.g. PH:RRH and PH:PSH)
- Emergency Shelter(s)Then the project type will be ‘Services Only’ and ‘Affiliated with a Residential Project’ will be ‘Yes.’ Each of the residential projects with which the Services Only project is associated must be identified.
- If the Services Only project provides only services (other than outreach or coordinated entry), has associated housing outcomes, and is not limited to serving clients of one or more specific residential projects, then the project type will be ‘Services Only’ and ‘Affiliated with a Residential project’ will be ‘No.’A residential project that is funded under one or more separate grants to provide supportive services to 100% of the clients of the residential project will be set up as a single project with the appropriate residential project type. All federal funding sources must be identified in 2.06 Funding Sources.
- One residential project AND
- Street Outreach: A project that offers services necessary to reach out to unsheltered homeless people, connect them with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services, and provide urgent, non-facility-based care to unsheltered homeless people who are unwilling or unable to access emergency shelter, housing, or an appropriate health facility. Only persons who are “street homeless” should be entered into a street outreach project. Projects that also serve persons other than “street homeless” must have two separate projects to be set up in HMIS, one ‘Street Outreach’ and the other ‘Services Only.’
- Transitional Housing: A project that provides temporary lodging and is designed to facilitate the movement of homeless individuals and families into permanent housing within a specified period of time, but no longer than 24 months. Requirements and limitations may vary by program and will be specified by the funder.
For more information on HUD’s HMIS Data Standards visit:
https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/3824/hmis-data-dictionary/