This week we are publishing
the remaining three blog posts in our Coordinated Access series. For the full
picture, go back and read the first three, if you have not done so yet:
The
counterpart of supply is demand. It does no good to streamline your supply (of
persons), if the demand (housing units) side of the equation is not
systematized. The TCHC team realized that this supply needed to be carefully
managed in real time, as does any housing market. However, this task was much
greater given the different types of housing stock, with different requirements
and stipulations. Some housing is permanent supportive housing, some is
transitional housing, and some is rapid rehousing. Some is for veterans and
some is for persons with HIV/AIDS. Some is for single men and women and some is
for families. And that accounts just for housing with formal programs for the
homeless. Outside of this, there are housing units of public housing
authorities, tax credit rental properties, second chance rental housing and
more. Therefore, the TCHC created the Priority Status – Housing Inventory Chart
(the DOPS HIC) to manage the supply, and know the real time status of each and
every unit in the system, i.e. available, committed or filled. A full time
Housing Inventory Specialist or HIC Specialist was designated to manage the
chart, with all the nuances and requirements of the different types of units in
it, and to make sure that units were filled quickly once vacated. However, as
above, this was only part of that employee’s task. This person was also to find
and manage units for those who did not have room in or did not qualify for
units within the homeless response system. As a correlate to that, this person
would also work on a “ready to rent” program for individuals who do not belong
in the system itself, who can be certified through 18 hours of training, as
“ready to rent” making them more attractive to landlords.
The TCHC version of the DOPS
HIC:
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