Project Type Descriptions:
•Emergency Shelter (ES): A project that offers temporary shelter (lodging) for people experiencing homelessness.
•Transitional Housing (TH): A project that provides temporary lodging and is designed to facilitate movement into permanent housing within a specified period of time (but no longer than 24 months).
•Rapid Re-Housing ( RRH): A permanent housing project that provides short-term or medium-term rental assistance and supportive services to people experiencing homelessness.
•Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH): A project that offers long-term permanent housing and supportive services to people experiencing homelessness with a disability.
•Permanent Housing – Housing Only (PH-H): A project that offers permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness but does not make supportive services available as part of the project.
•Permanent Housing – Housing & Services (no disability required for entry) (PH-S): A project that offers permanent housing and supportive services to assist people experiencing homelessness to live independently but does not limit eligibility to people with disabilities.
•Homelessness Prevention (HP): A project that offers services and/or financial assistance necessary to prevent a person from entering emergency shelter or a place not meant for habitation.
•Street Outreach (SO): A project that offers services necessary to reach out to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, connect them with shelter, housing, or critical services, and provide urgent, non-facility based care to those unable to access shelter, housing, or an appropriate health facility. Only persons residing on the streets should be entered into a Street Outreach project. Projects assisting persons other than unsheltered persons must have two separate projects, one “Street Outreach” and one “Services Only”.
•Services Only (SSO): A project that offers Housing-structure specific OR Stand-alone supportive services(other than Street Outreach and Coordinated Entry) to address the special needs of participants.
•Day Shelter (DS): project that offers daytime facilities and services (no lodging) for people experiencing homelessness.
•Other (OT): A project that offers services, but does not provide lodging, and cannot otherwise be categorized as another project type.