Annual Performance Plan 508

Strategic
Goal
Metric
Use Housing as a Platform to Improve Quality of Life
Number and percentage of admissions of new homeless families into HUD-assisted Housing
Public and Indian Housing
• Description: Admissions of new homeless households into Public Housing
• Data source: PIC
• Unit of measurement: New Homeless Admissions
• Dimension: Count and Percentage
• Calculation method: Number of families admitted into HUD-assisted housing
• Frequency: Quarterly
• Direction: Increased
• Data quality (limitations/advantages of the data): Public housing agencies self-report the data. Based
on a review of PIC reporting on line 4C (homeless at admission) of the Form 50058, PIH found that
some PHAs were not reporting in this field accurately, or were reporting “no” for all applicants, whether
homeless or not.
• Measurement Validation, verification, and improvement of measure: PIH issued guidance in the form
of Notice PIH 2013-15 to help correct the data quality issue.
Sequence: 31a
Metric
Multifamily Housing
• Description: Admissions of new homeless households into HUD-assisted Multifamily units
• Data source: TRACs
• Unit of measurement: New Homeless Admissions
• Dimension: Count
• Calculation method: Number of families admitted into HUD-assisted housing
• Frequency: Quarterly
• Direction: Increasing
• Data quality (limitations/advantages of the data): Data will be collected beginning in late 2014. Some
period of time will be needed to improve the quality of data collection, identify and resolve problems, and
to establish baselines.
• Measurement Validation, verification, and improvement of measure:
Sequence: 31b
180 Section Three: Additional Information