system performance measures

System Performance Measures are part of annual reporting that help examine the CoC’s performance by a set of advanced metrics. HUD requires every Continuum of Care to assess their homeless response system yearly for the following measures:

Median Length of Time Homeless

Returns to Homelessness

Number of Homeless Persons

Employment and Income Growth

First Time Homelessness

Placement in and Retention of Permanent Housing

The graphics below assess data collected from TN-501 between 2015 and 2022 in relation to the system performance measures listed above. When a graph is displaying “number of people” in this context, it is referring to number of people in the HMIS universe of data*.

NOTES:
The data included below is pulled from the HMIS Universe of Data. You can learn more about what this means here.
Permanent Housing (PH) includes Rapid Re-Housing and Permanent Supportive Housing solutions.

For more info broadly outlining poverty in Memphis and Shelby County, please review the 2023 Memphis Poverty Fact Sheet.