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HUD, News

New CoC Racial Equity Analysis Tool

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HUD is pleased to announce the availability of the Continuum of Care (CoC) Racial Equity Analysis Tool to help communities understand who is accessing their homeless service system and what outcomes those families and individuals are realizing. Over the past year the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) has been highlighting promising practices from the field on how to better understand and address the overrepresentation of people of color among those experiencing homelessness. In November 2017 USICH discussed using GIS mapping to help address disparities in homelessness assistance. The USICH post discussed the use of GIS to analyze local …

HUD, News, NOFA

HMIS Capacity Building NOFA Deadline Reminder: Applications Due Thursday, January 31, 2019

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There are 3 days remaining until the application submission deadline for the HMIS Capacity Building Project Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). Unless you have received an extension from HUD, all applications must be submitted by Thursday, January 31, 2019 by 11:59:59 PM EST. Applications shall be submitted to Grants.gov unless a waiver has been issued allowing you to submit your application in paper form. Instructions for submitting your paper application will be contained in the waiver of electronic submission. As a reminder, “Received by Grants.gov” means the applicant received a confirmation of receipt and an application tracking number from Grants.gov. …

HUD, LSA, NOFA, SPM

HMIS Lead/System Administrator Quarterly Call

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Reminder – Please join us for the HMIS Lead/System Administrator Quarterly Call on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 1:00 pm ET. The agenda is: HUD Updates HMIS NOFA NHSDC Technical Updates Updated System Performance Measures Report specs (review) Updated PATH Annual Report specs (review) LSA Updates Data Standards Updates timeline/expectations System Administration Updates SA Call Discussion/Feedback TA Strategy Review Please follow this link to complete registration for the webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3323638224505686273. Even if you are not planning on attending, registering will allow you to access the recording of the webinar in case you can’t attend the live session.

HUD

HUD Closed – HUD Exchange Website Operational

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Due to the lapse in Congressional Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2019, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is closed. The HUD Exchange website is supported by a cooperative agreement funded under a prior appropriation. Current functions will remain operational but no new functions will be added during the lapse in appropriations. For more information, see HUD Contingency Plan for Possible Lapse in Appropriations.

HUD, PIT

Reminder: Point-in-Time Count Resources

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The Point-in-Time (PIT) count is a little over a month away now. As you prepare for your count we wanted to remind you of a few resources: Notice CPD-18-08: 2019 Housing Inventory Count (HIC) and PIT Data Collection for CoC and ESG Programs: This Notice outlines HUD’s requirements for the 2019 HIC and PIT count. PIT and HIC Guides, Tools, and Webinars: This site contains several resources communities can use to plan and conduct their counts. Crosswalk of Key Federally-funded Child and Youth Homeless Contacts: The U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and HUD …

HDX 2.0, HUD

HDX 2.0 Maintenance Period

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What is happening? The HDX 2.0 will have a brief maintenance window today from Noon to 1:00 PM (ET). During this window, we will be pushing out some calculation fixes. What do I need to do? Please finish any uploads or downloads and log out of the HDX 2.0 prior to this time. Jobs that are uploading or processing will be terminated.   The HDX initiative is brought to you by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Submit questions or comments about the HDX 2.0 via Ask A Question[https://www.hudexchange.info/program-support/my-question/] (choose “HDX” as the topic)  

HUD, LSA

Today: Deadline for Official 2018 LSA Data Submission

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The deadline for submitting official Longitudinal Systems Analysis (LSA) data for use in the 2018 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress via the new Homelessness Data Exchange, Version 2.0 (HDX 2.0) is TODAY, Friday, December 14, 2018 at 11:59 PM PST. Before you click the “Submit for Review” button (located in the Data Summary View tab) for your upload, make sure: Your upload is marked as Official HUD Submission, not Local Use Only. You have resolved any warnings flagged in the HDX 2.0 by either leaving a note in the system and selecting a warning status from the warning’s …

HUD, LSA, News

Reminder: Upcoming Deadline for Official 2018 LSA Data Submission – December 14, 2018

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The deadline for submitting official Longitudinal Systems Analysis (LSA) data for use in the 2018 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress via the new Homelessness Data Exchange, Version 2.0 (HDX 2.0) is 11:59 PM PST on Friday, December 14, 2018. LSA uploads are extracted directly from each Continuum of Care’s (CoC’s) Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). Unlike with prior AHAR submissions, changes to data cannot be made manually. Therefore, to resolve data quality warnings in the HDX 2.0, CoCs will either need to write notes to explain why the data are accurate as they are, or fix any issues …

LSA, WellSky

WellSky LSA Export

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HUD this morning has sent out the below information regarding the LSA export and HDX. We are passing along this information to you: “HDX 2.0 Users: Thanks to your ongoing diligent review, we have identified several new bugs in the system related to warnings and calculations for the “Chronic Homelessness and Disabling Condition” display. First, since our calculation updates last week, the warnings being thrown for data results in these fields are being applied to the wrong fields. In addition, for the AO-RRH and AO-PSH results, the results are displaying inaccurately. These results do not mean that your underlying data …