Promote the use of local data to evaluate current system-level outcomes and costs and to inform reallocation strategies
Communities are beginning o understand performance measurement but most do not yet understand how to use their own information to make strategic investment decisions. Those decisions should include cost information that is not tracked in HMIS but that communities have access to. The revised Plan should make clear that local data including cost per outcome should be central to the process of planning to end homelessness, and USICH and its partners should promote this and provide tools and support for communities to do this analysis.
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Anonymous commented
This idea is very similar to the recommendation in this section to "provide guidance about how communities create and scale appropriate interventions" and should perhaps be combined. Bringing interventions to scale most commonly will include reallocation strategies. I would take this even a step further and say that the Plan should mandate certain cost per outcome analyses as part of system level outcomes that are necessary for system redesign and reallocation to bring successful interventions to scale.