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Every year, HUD submits an Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to the US Congress. The AHAR is a national-level report that provides information about homeless service providers, people and households experiencing homelessness, and various characteristics of that population. It informs strategic planning for federal, state, and local initiatives designed to prevent and end homelessness. The LSA report is produced from each CoC’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), and is compiled to create the AHAR report to Congress.

Check out the LSA Report FY 2025 here.

The following project type Goals and Outcomes Reports have been published!

Emergency Shelter – reporting period: 11/01/2024 – 10/31/2025

Street Outreach – reporting period: 12/01/2024 – 11/30/2025

Homelessness Prevention – reporting period: 01/01/2025 – 12/31/2025

Agencies are encouraged to attend the Service Provider Forum Meeting to further discuss data collection and hear from other partner agencies.

Thursday, February 19, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Please review the full Service Provider Forum Meeting Agenda for additional details on topics and meeting location.

All FY 2026 Data Standards materials are available on the HUD Exchange.

Review the HMIS Data Collection Requirements for Transition to FY 2026 HMIS Data Standards guide for additional information.

The following project type Goals and Outcomes Reports have been published!

Homelessness Prevention Project Performance – reporting period: 07/01/2024 – 06/30/2025

Permanent Supportive Housing & Other Permanent Housing – reporting period: 08/01/2024 – 07/31/2025

Rapid Re-Housing – reporting period: 09/01/2024 – 08/31/2025

Transitional Housing – reporting period: 10/01/2024 – 09/30/2025

The HMIS Clarity and Looker outage experienced by users on 10/01/25 has been resolved.
If site loading errors persist, HMIS Agency Administrators may contact the Help Desk.

Thank you for your patience!

We are currently experiencing an outage with Clarity and Looker which generates all the HMIS Reports. 

Our vendor BitFocus is currently working on a solution.

Thank you for your patience – we are hoping Clarity and reports will be back up and running shortly.

The Emergency Shelter and Street Outreach Project Performance and Goals and Outcomes Reports have been published!

Emergency Shelter – reporting period: 5/1/2024 – 4/30/2025

Street Outreach – reporting period: 06/1/2024 – 05/31/2025

Review the 2025 HIC Overview and 2025 Sheltered PIT Overview reports to see data for the Orange County CoC.

HUD has released updates to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Data Standards to be compliant with the current Administration’s Executive Orders. Please note that the document includes a revision history detailing the specific changes made in the documents.

The following resources have been updated:

• FY 2024 HMIS Data Standards Manual
• HMIS Interactive Tool

As a reminder, the FY 2024 HMIS Data Standards provide the requirements for the programming and use of all HMIS and comparable database systems and went into effect on October 1, 2023. Software updates connected with these latest changes will be required to be completed during the FY 2026 HMIS Data Standards implementation.

Questions?

If you have questions about the FY 2024 HMIS Data Standards, please submit them to the HMIS Ask A Question (AAQ) portal. In Step 2 of the question submission process, select “HMIS” in the “My question is related to” dropdown.