MEASURING RESULTS, MONITORING PERFORMANCE, AND BUILDING ACCOUNTABILITY

Accurate, reliable data is a critical tool for service planning, advocacy, and preventing and ending homelessness. Because many variables affect homelessness and the situation is often changing, it is important to collect numbers and characteristics of those experiencing homelessness, as well as information about the experience of homelessness and service provision. These data are essential to understanding our system’s ability to meet the need and to identifying effective strategies for addressing the crisis.

King County’s Homeless Response System

Prepared by the King County Department of Community and Human Services, Performance Measurement and Evaluation

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How equitable is the system?

Prepared by the King County Department of Community and Human Services, Performance Measurement and Evaluation


How are we addressing the crisis?

A successful homeless response system implements the evidence-based practice of Housing First, and uses principles of racial equity, within a coordinated and regional response. Using the best available data to drive decisions, we are working with urgency towards making homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring.

Data in the homeless response system is collected through the King County Homeless Management Information System (HMIS).


How do households access and flow through Coordinated Entry System?

Learn more by exploring the Coordinated Entry System dashboards.


Understand the issue better. Explore our data dashboards.

How many households are accessing the system?
UPDATED MONTHLY

The Household Served dashboards show the number of households experiencing homelessness and receiving services in the homeless response system on the last day of a given month.

How well is the system meeting the need for services?
UPDATED ANNUALLY

The Crisis Response dashboards show the number of households entering and exiting the homeless response system each year. Explore trends by subpopulation and across time.

How well is our system performing?
UPDATED QUARTERLY/ANNUALLY

The System Performance dashboards show the performance of the overall system as well as individual programs. Explore trends by subpopulation, program type, and across time.

How are rapid re-housing programs performing?
UPDATED QUARTERLY

The Rapid Re-Housing dashboards show how well and how quickly rapid re-housing is connecting participants to housing. Explore trends by program target population, race and ethnicity, and income.