A new database gives a sharper picture of homelessness across California
Volunteer Kay Gabbard and Deputy Santiago Cienfuegos find a tent while looking for signs of homeless people in the Point Dume State Beach area in Malibu. The information was kept in 44 separate databases, each maintained by one of the 44 federally mandated agencies, called continuums of care, that plan and deliver homeless services across the state. The new database, called the Homeless Data Integration System, was created to help state policy makers see homelessness broadly and to provide an analytical tool to measure how effective individual agencies and and their services are. “For the first time, we will have the necessary data and tools to better coordinate statewide services” said Ali Sutton, deputy secretary for homelessness under the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency.
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