Full Title: Number of economically disadvantaged individuals, including homeless individuals, transitioned into safe, healthy, affordable housing.
Definition of Key Terms
Homeless: people who spend the night in a place not intended for human habitation, in an emergency shelter, or in a transitional housing facility. See Dept. of Housing and Urban Development definition http://www.hud.gov/homeless/definition.cfm
Individuals: all persons in a family except unborn children
Affordable housing: Important dimension of permanence. If individual or family cannot afford the rent and is evicted for non-payment or has to move to avoid eviction, the unit is not permanent. Affordability is defined in two ways, either of which may be appropriate for this purpose. 1) The unit costs not more than a percentage of the household’s actual income (the standard rule is 30 percent, but the Housing Choice Voucher program provides precedent for going to 40 percent), or 2) the housing unit costs no more than 9 percent of the local area median income (that is, 30 percent of an income at 30 percent of the local AMI, which on national average is the poverty level).
Safe, healthy housing: The housing unit passes an inspection standard related to immediate health and safety (not durability). The Housing Quality Standards used for the Housing Choice Voucher and many other housing programs would work, but self-certification by the grantee probably is good enough.
How to Calculate Measure/Collect Data
Count of Individuals. Each unique person who will be occupying the unit legally including adults and children but not unborn children.