The U.S. Departments of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) and Justice (DOJ) entered into an
interagency collaboration that combines DOJ’s mission to promote
safer communities by focusing on the reentry population with HUD’s
mission to end chronic homelessness. This collaboration resulted in
the Pay for Success Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration with
$8.68M awarded to seven communities to develop supportive housing
for persons cycling between the jail or prison systems and the
homeless service systems using pay for success (PFS) as a funding
mechanism. HUD-DOJ announced seven grantees from across the country
in June 2016. The PFS Demonstration grant supports activities
throughout the PFS lifecycle, including feasibility analysis,
transaction structuring, and outcome evaluation and success
payments, with each grantee receiving funds for different stages in
the PFS lifecycle. Through the national evaluation, which is funded
through an interagency agreement between HUD and DOJ and managed by
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD-DOJ seek to
assess whether PFS is a viable model for scaling supportive housing
to improve outcomes for a re-entry population. The main goal of the
evaluation is to learn how the PFS model is implemented in diverse
settings with different structures, populations, and community
contexts. The Urban Institute has designed a multi-disciplinary,
multi-method approach to “learn as we do” and meet the key
objectives of the formative evaluation. To understand project
implementation, the evaluation includes data collection on both the
time that project partners dedicate to each PFS project as well as
PFS partner perceptions and interactions and community-level
changes that may benefit the target population. This information
collection request is for an ongoing time survey and an annual
partnership web survey. The time survey will be used to assess
staff time spent on development of each PFS project throughout the
different lifecycle phases and the partnership survey will be used
to document partner perceptions and interactions and
community-level changes that may benefit the target
population.
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This is a new collection. HUD
and DOJ entered into an innovative interagency collaboration that
resulted in the PFS Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration with
$8.68M awarded to seven grantees in June 2016 to develop supportive
housing for persons cycling between the jail or prison systems and
the homeless service systems using PFS as a funding mechanism. As
this interagency collaboration and demonstration is new, there has
not been any prior information collected. This data collection is
part of the national evaluation, managed by the Office of Policy
Development and Research at HUD, that is designed to help HUD-DOJ
assess whether PFS is a viable model for scaling supportive housing
to improve outcomes for a re-entry population. This data collection
request is for a Weekly Text Time Survey, Monthly Web-Based Time
Survey, and Annual Web-Based Partnership Survey. The Weekly Text
Time Survey and Monthly Web-Based Time Survey will be used to
assess staff time spent on development of each PFS project
throughout the different lifecycle phases and the Annual Web-Based
Partnership Survey will be used to document partner perceptions and
interactions and community-level changes that may benefit the
target population
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
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the proposed collection of information, that the certification
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(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
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