The following lists and describes the available responses to the following questions:
Prior Living Situation: Located in HUD entry assessments
Current Living Situation: Located in all HUD assessments
Destination: Located in the HUD exit assessments
| Homeless Situations | |
| Place not meant for habitation (e.g., a vehicle, an abandoned building, bus/train/subway station/airport or anywhere outside) | |
| Emergency shelter, including hotel or motel paid for with emergency shelter voucher, Host Home shelter | A facility, the primary purpose of which is to provide temporary shelter for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. |
| Safe Haven | A form of supportive housing that serves hard-to-reach persons experiencing homelessness with severe mental illness and/or substance use disorders who are on the street and have been unable or unwilling to participate in supportive services. |
| Institutional Situations | |
| Foster care home or foster care group home | |
| Hospital or other residential nonpsychiatric medical facility | |
| Jail, prison, or juvenile detention facility | |
| Long-term care facility or nursing home | |
| Psychiatric hospital or other psychiatric facility | |
| Substance abuse treatment facility or detox center | |
| Temporary Housing Situations | |
| Transitional housing for homeless persons (including homeless youth) | |
| Residential project or halfway house with no homeless criteria | A sober living or other residential project with no lease or rights of tenancy, with or without time limits. |
| Hotel or motel paid for without emergency shelter voucher | |
| Host Home (non-crisis) | |
| Staying or living with family, temporary tenure (e.g., room, apartment, or house) | |
| Staying or living with friends, temporary tenure (e.g., room, apartment, or house) | |
| Moved from one HOPWA funded project to HOPWA TH | Limited to use by HOPWA-funded projects |
| Staying or living in a friend’s room, apartment, or house | |
| Staying or living in a family member’s room, apartment, or house | |
| Permanent Housing Situation | |
| Staying or living with family, permanent tenure | |
| Staying or living with friends, permanent tenure | |
| Moved from one HOPWA funded project to HOPWA PH | Limited to use by HOPWA-funded projects |
| Rental by client, no ongoing housing subsidy | A rental that the client will pay for on their own (without a subsidy of any kind) |
| Rental by client, with ongoing housing subsidy | Any subsidized rental housing. See dependent field responses in the table below* |
| Owned by client, with ongoing housing subsidy | |
| Owned by client, no ongoing housing subsidy | |
| Other | |
| No exit interview completed | This will be considered "missing data" for data quality and reporting purposes. This response should not be used in place of a valid Living Situation response |
| Other | Any response of "Other" in Destination will not count in any HMIS-based reporting as a positive outcome. |
| Deceased | |
| Worker unable to determine | |
| Client doesn’t know | |
| Client prefers not to answer | |
| Data not collected | |
| Subsidy Types – Dependent Field to "Rental by client, with ongoing housing subsidy" | |
| GPD TIP housing subsidy | |
| VASH housing subsidy | |
| RRH or equivalent subsidy | |
| HCV voucher (tenant or project based) (not dedicated) | Includes HCV with no paired services. |
| Public housing unit | |
| Rental by client, with other ongoing housing subsidy | |
| Housing Stability Voucher | |
| Family Unification Program Voucher (FUP) | |
| Foster Youth to Independence Initiative (FYI) | |
| Permanent Supportive Housing | |
| Other permanent housing dedicated for formerly homeless persons | |