“Of all the applicants, they had the widest net of people at risk of homelessness. This is very exciting.”
In 2023, Cincinnati City Council set aside just over $2 million in funding to be put toward one project that Councilmembers thought had the greatest potential to reduce evictions and housing loss in the city.
The Human Services Advisory Committee reviewed the applications and presented their recommendations to City Council for approval. And Strategies to End Homelessness is honored to be chosen as the City’s first ever Impact Award recipient.
The goal: Use data and predictive data analytics expertise to identify families in the early stages of a housing crisis – perhaps before the head of household even realizes the situation could lead to housing loss – and proactively offer assistance to resolve the crisis.
After a year of planning for and building a new, data-driven, cost-effective service delivery model to proactively prevent households from ever receiving an eviction notice, and this new system for reducing instability and preventing housing loss went live this past Monday July 1st.
Our thanks to all the partners in the Collaborative: Bethany House Services, Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub, Found House Interfaith Housing Network, Legal Aid Society, Lighthouse Youth & Family Services, St. Vincent de Paul, the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati, and data science company 84.51.
Predictive Data Analytics conducted by Strategies to End Homelessness will identify which households are most at-risk of housing loss, and our partner agencies will proactively reach out to these households, offering services and assistance targeted toward addressing their emerging housing crisis.
Services will be offered through an equity lens and guided by people with lived experience of housing instability and homelessness.
Some of the data sets included in the Predictive Data Model 1.0 include: Homelessness Management Information System data, Shelter Diversion program data, Hamilton County Jobs and Family Services Emergency Rental Assistance data, City of Cincinnati Emergency Rental Assistance payments and the Central Access Point Helpline data.
There is much more work to do, and we will keep you updated on our shared progress.
