ACRE Consulting's Unofficial HPP Report
Housing Attainment, Loss, and Retention
This report is intended to allow communities in Ontario who receive HPP funding to use HIFIS data to report on housing attainment, loss, and retention.
Broadly speaking, the report summarizes data about households that had a move-in or retained housing for 12 months or who became homeless, filtered by date range, service providers, programs, and service types.
This is an unofficial report and is not endorsed by the Ontario MMAH.
Note: this report requires the Program Entry Dataset to run. These products are sold separately but have the option to purchase them together using the Buy Now button below.
Housing Attainment, Loss, and Retention
Service Managers are required to collect and report on the households who maintained their housing, moved in to new housing, and lost their housing in the reporting period.
Required data elements include:
- households at-risk of homelessness who retain housing for 12 months or more
- households at-risk of homelessness who became homeless
- households experiencing homelessness who retain housing for 12 months or more
- households who were housed through HPP
Features of this Report
Meet Reporting Requirements
Report features aggregated service and program data, allowing you to report on data elements 1.5, 1.6, 2.5, and 4.1 for all required reporting breakdowns.
Discharges from Provincial Institutions
Includes 4 methods of tracking discharges from provincial institutions:
- Housing History
- Reason for Service
- Referred From
- Life Events
Tons of Parameters!
There are so many parameters we can't print them all on every page. You can customize how to handle Unknown housing status and Transitional housing status. choose eligible Programs, Service Providers, and Service Types. And of course, use the parameter for Discharge Module.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What version of HIFIS is required to run this report? This report should run on any version of HIFIS version 4.0.57 and higher.
- What happens if the report stops working? This report will be maintained into the foreseeable future. If a software update causes it to stop working, or if we find an error, we'll update the file and let you know there's a new version available, at no additional cost to you.
- How long does this report take to run? The run-time varies depending on how much data is in your database, and how long a date range and how many service providers you select when running the report. However, we have tested the report with large data volumes and it runs quickly and efficiently.
- What parameters are included in this report? Start DateEnd DateService ProvidersProgramsService Types - multiple-select drop-down field which includes a list of modules in HIFIS that services are provided inDischarge Module - single-select drop-down which contains 4 options:Reason for ServiceReferred FromHousing HistoryLife EventsHow should Transitional housing status be treated? - single-select drop-down field which includes 2 options:Treat transitional as homelessTreat transitional as housedHow should Unknown housing status be treated? - single-select drop-down field which includes 4 options:Treat unknown as homelessTreat unknown as housedLeave as unknownUse earliest known status
- How do I run this report? Check out our README file.
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