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New York City Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) NYC CCoC April 15,2016
What is ESG?
HEATH ACT of 2009 revised Emergency Shelter Grant to the Emergency Solutions Grant which took effect in January 2012.
ESG program provides funding:
Prevent families and individuals from becoming homeless; Rapidly re-house homeless individuals and families Engaging homeless individuals and families living on the street; Improve the number and quality of emergency shelter for homeless individuals and families; & Help operate these shelters and provide essential services to shelter residents.
ESG is a formula grant program distributed by HUD which cities can sub grant ESG funds to private nonprofit organizations.
DHS is the recipient for NYC and we contract out with numerous non-profit and government agencies to provide services. The current award to NYC is $13,600,063 with a match dollars through City Tax Levy funds.
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Consolidated Plan
Eligible recipients apply through the Consolidated Planning process whose purpose lays out communities homeless assistance, housing need, examination of resources, sets a multi-year strategy.
Homeless Outreach Homeless Prevention Rapid Rehousing Homeless Outreach Emergency shelter and essential services Veterans Homelessness Chronic Homelessness
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Prevention Homebase
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Key Trends Prevention
The Homebase program enrolled more than 1,400 families with children and 375 adult families and single adults in January 2016.
One-year Homebase housing retention rates remained above 90% for individuals and households in all but highest risk categories.
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Homebase Family Enrollments January 2015 to January 2016 2,500
Households
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0 Jan-15
Feb-15
Mar-15
Apr-15
May-15
Jun-15
Jul-15
Aug-15
Sep-15
Oct-15
Nov-15
Dec-15
Jan-16
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Homebase Adult Enrollments January 2015 to January 2016
450 400 350
Households
300 250 200 150 100 50 0 Jan-15
Feb-15
Mar-15
Apr-15
May-15
Jun-15
Jul-15
Single Adults
Aug-15
Sep-15
Oct-15
Nov-15
Dec-15
Jan-16
Adult Families
Street Outreach
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Key Trends Street Outreach
Increase in Placement: The number of placements of chronically homeless person into transitional or permanent housing increased by 34% from December 2015 to January 2016.
Increase in 311 Assistance: The number of requests for assistance to the DHS Street Homelessness Solutions Unit via 311 NYC Service line and app during the January 2016 increased by 43% as compared to December 2015.
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Street Outreach Placements of Chronically Street Homeless into Transitional and Permanent Housing by Outreach Teams January 2015 - January 2016 350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0 Jan-15
Feb-15
Mar-15
Apr-15
May-15
Jun-15
Jul-15
Aug-15
Sep-15
Oct-15
Nov-15
Dec-15
Jan-16
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Street Outreach Requests for Assistance via 311 NYC Services Line and Apps January 2015 - January 2016 2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0 Jan-15
Feb-15
Mar-15
Apr-15
May-15
Jun-15
Jul-15
Aug-15
Sep-15
Oct-15
Nov-15
Dec-15*
Jan-16
*HomeStat announced in December 2015
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Shelter Families with Children, Adult families and Single Adults
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Key Trends Shelter Families with Children
Length of Stay decreased slightly while Long Term Stayers Increased in the past month.
In January, the average length of stay decreased from 435 to 434 days.
The number of long terms stayers families increased from 2083 to 2115 in the past month, however down 9% from a year ago.
Domestic Violence remained the top reason for homelessness for the Seventh Consecutive month.
In the past 24 months DV has been either the top reason for homelessness, or tied with eviction as the top reason for homelessness.
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Average Daily Census: Families and Individuals in Shelter June 2014 - January 2016 70,000
60,000
58140
57,676
50,000
41,267
40537
40,000
30,000
20,000
12943
11,844
12225
11,852
10,000
Families with Children
Adult Families
Single Adults
Individuals in Families with Children
Jan-16
Dec-15
Nov-15
Oct-15
Sep-15
Aug-15
Jul-15
Jun-15
May-15
Apr-15
Mar-15
Feb-15
Jan-15
Dec-14
Nov-14
Oct-14
Sep-14
Aug-14
Jul-14
Jun-14
0
Total Individuals
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Families with Children Entrants, Exits and Census December 2014 - December 2015 13,000
1,400
12,500 1,200 12,000
11,000
Census
800 10,500 600
Entrants & Exits
1,000
11,500
10,000
9,500
400
9,000 200 8,500
8,000
0 Dec-14
Jan-15
Feb-15
Mar-15
Apr-15 Census
May-15
Jun-15 Entrants
Jul-15
Aug-15
Sep-15
Oct-15
Nov-15
Dec-15
Exits
Key Trends Adult
Family
Single
Adults new entrants increased while returning entrants
census increased: in January up 1.5% from December. This represents a 3% increase from the same period in the previous year.
decreased. There was an average of 30.7 new entrants each day in January. This is a 12.5% increase from December 2015 and an 8.3% increase from last January.
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Shelter DHS Adult Family Census
2,500 2,400 2,300 2,200 2,100 2,000 1,900 1,800 1,700 1,600
1,500 1,400 1,300 1,200 1,100 FY 16 FY 15 FY 14 FY 13 FY 12 FY 11 FY 10 FY 09
July 2,120 1,951 1,794 1,639 1,294 1,305 1,332 1,139
Aug 2,126 2,004 1,805 1,673 1,308 1,326 1,353 1,171
Sept 2,140 2,067 1,824 1,680 1,341 1,323 1,374 1,227
Oct 2,167 2,103 1,855 1,669 1,376 1,309 1,348 1,277
Nov 2,176 2,128 1,876 1,689 1,400 1,317 1,315 1,297
Dec 2,187 2,134 1,872 1,686 1,383 1,315 1,293 1,337
Jan 2,221 2,159 1,882 1,706 1,475 1,316 1,284 1,326
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
2,172 1,900 1,749 1,505 1,328 1,289 1,310
2,165 1,881 1,766 1,525 1,333 1,299 1,295
2,149 1,883 1,793 1,571 1,308 1,280 1,315
2,147 1,903 1,811 1,608 1,303 1,278 1,307
2,135 1,922 1,819 1,609 1,292 1,268 1,315
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Single Adult Entrants, Placements and Average Daily Census December 2014 - December 2015 14,000
2,000
1,800 13,000 1,600
1,400
Census
1,200
11,000
1,000
800
Entrants & Exits
12,000
10,000 600
400 9,000 200
8,000
0 Dec-14
Jan-15
Feb-15
Mar-15
Apr-15
May-15
Census
Jun-15 Entrants
Jul-15
Aug-15
Sep-15
Oct-15
Nov-15
Dec-15
Exits
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