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Information about HMIS

Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) are being implemented, following federal guidelines, by local and state consortia of governmental and private funders and service providers known as Continuums of Care (CoCs).

Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) are being implemented, following federal guidelines, by local and state consortia of governmental and private funders and service providers known as Continuums of Care (CoCs). CoCs are the entities to which HUD has given the responsibility and authority to create strategic plans for reducing homelessness and to submit the consolidated applications for HUD McKinney-Vento discretionary grant funds. The annual CoC application requires ranking of all requests for new and renewal funding for all providers within a geographic area. Some CoCs cover a single city, but many cover a metropolitan area, a group of counties, a large portion of a state, or the entire state. HUD has now required all Continuums of Care to make substantial progress towards implementing HMIS; in the national competition among CoCs, funding applications are ranked in part on the basis of their HMIS progress. The HMIS has many advantages for developing better performance reporting.