1.) Homelessness Prevention-A project that offers services and/or financial assistance necessary to prevent a person from moving into an emergency shelter or place not meant for human habitation.
2.) Street Outreach- A project that offers services necessary to reach out to unsheltered homeless people, connect them with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services, and provide urgent, non-facility-based care to unsheltered homeless people who are unwilling or unable to access emergency shelter, housing, or an appropriate health facility. Only persons who are "street homeless” should be entered into a street outreach project. Projects that also serve persons other than “street homeless” must have two separate projects to be set up in HMIS, one 'Street Outreach' and the other 'Services Only.'
3.) Emergency Shelter – Night-by-Night- The NBN emergency shelter type may be used by some high-volume shelters and shelters where a significant proportion of clients spend a night at the shelter as needed on an irregular basis. This project type relies on creating a separate record of each individual date on which a client is present in the shelter as a means for calculating length of stay and implies that the emergency shelter is generally unable to collect as much client data at project exit as an EE emergency shelter for tracking utilization. In NBN shelter: (1) entry information is collected the first time that a client stays at the shelter (2) the project records every discrete date (or series of dates) that the client resides in the shelter; (3) the HMIS maintains historical data on the nights a client is sheltered; (4) the client may be exited when shelter staff has information that indicates that the client is unlikely to return to the shelter or the system may be designed to automatically generate an exit (dating back to the day after the last bed night) after an extended absence; and (5) for reporting purposes, a client's length of stay in the project will be based on the actual number of bed nights and not on the period of time from entry to exit.
4.) Emergency Shelter – Entry Exit- A project that offers temporary shelter (lodging) for people experiencing homelessness in general or for specific populations of people experiencing homelessness. Requirements and limitations may vary by program and will be specified by the funder. The EE shelter project type should be used for all shelters that collect Universal Data Elements (UDEs) and certain Program-Specific Data Elements (PSDEs) at project start and project exit, including projects that require or strongly encourage a continuous stay while a client resolves their experience of homelessness. In EE shelters, length of stay is calculated based on the number of nights between project start and project exit, and performance measures will include changes from project start and project exit Data Collection Stages.
5.) Transitional Housing- A project that provides temporary lodging and is designed to facilitate the movement of homeless individuals and families into permanent housing within a specified period of time, but no longer than 24 months. Requirements and limitations may vary by program, and will be specified by the funder.
6.) Day Shelter- A project that offers daytime facilities and services (no lodging) for persons who are homeless.
7.) Safe Haven- A project that offers supportive housing that (1) serves hard to reach homeless persons with severe mental illness who came from the streets and have been unwilling or unable to participate in supportive services; (2) provides 24-hour residence for eligible persons for an unspecified period; (3) has an overnight capacity limited to 25 or fewer persons; and (4) provides low demand services and referrals for the residents.
8.) PH - Rapid Re-Housing- A permanent housing project that provides housing relocation and stabilization services and short- and/or medium-term rental assistance as necessary to help a homeless individual or family move as quickly as possible into permanent housing and achieve stability in that housing.
- RRH: Services Only- A RRH project that provides services only and does not provide ongoing rental assistance or support any inventory for participants.
- RRH: Housing with or without services- A RRH project that offers ongoing rental assistance that may or may not be accompanied by financial or other supportive services to participants.
9.) PH - Permanent Supportive Housing (disability required for entry)- A project that offers permanent housing and supportive services to assist homeless persons with a disability (individuals with disabilities or families in which one adult or child has a disability) to live independently.
10.) PH - Housing with Services (no disability required for entry)- A project that offers permanent housing and supportive services to assist homeless persons to live independently, but does not limit eligibility to individuations with disabilities or families in which one adult or child has a disability.
11.) PH - Housing Only- A project that offers permanent housing for persons who are homeless, but does not make supportive services available as part of the project.
12.) Coordinated Entry- A project that administers the continuum's centralized or coordinated process to coordinate assessment and referral of individuals and families seeking housing or services, including use of a comprehensive and standardized assessment tool.
13.) Services Only- A project that offers only stand-alone supportive services (other than outreach or coordinated entry) to address the special needs of participants (such as child care, employment assistance, and transportation services ) and has associated housing outcomes.
14. ) Other- A project that offers services, but does not provide lodging, and cannot otherwise be categorized as another project type, per above. Any project that provides only stand-alone supportive services (other than outreach or coordinated entry) and has no associated housing outcomes should be typed as 'Other.' For example, a project funded to provide child care for persons in permanent housing or a dental care project funded to serve homeless clients should be typed 'Other.' A project funded to provide ongoing case management with associated housing outcomes should be typed 'Services Only.'