System Indicators
The System Indicators dashboard displays all persons that have experienced homelessness or received services in our system; it shows how homelessness changes over time, including inflow and outflow from the Coordinated Entry System (CES) which is the process in which our community identifies, assesses, and matches individuals to resources need to resolve homelessness.
For questions about this dashboard, please email Danielle Bagg Wireman.
For questions about this dashboard, please email Danielle Bagg Wireman.
2021 Key Takeaways:
- From 2020 to 2021 there was an 9% decrease in the number of people experiencing homelessness.
- From 2019 onward, there has been a steady decline in individuals experiencing homelessness. From 2019 - 2021, there was a 24% decrease.
- Black people made up 46% of those that have experienced homelessness, despite only being 29% of Indianapolis' population. These numbers are consistent with the last calendar year.
- The impact of increased housing resources including Coronavirus Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG-CV) funding, voucher deployment, and improved Coordinated Entry System (CES) navigation resulted in high CES outflow for 2021 with a 62% increase in exits to permanent housing from 2020 - 2021.
- There was an increase in clients entering the Coordinated Entry System, likely due to the ongoing pandemic and economic crisis.
- Of the clients exiting Coordinated Entry to permanent housing in 2021, 26% of clients self-resolved and 74% found housing through CoC resources.
How to use the dashboard:
This dashboard contains a lot of information, but you can hover your mouse over the data points to see information pop-ups and learn more. You can also view the dashboard using different filters that will impact what information is highlighted in the dashboard’s presentation.
This dashboard contains a lot of information, but you can hover your mouse over the data points to see information pop-ups and learn more. You can also view the dashboard using different filters that will impact what information is highlighted in the dashboard’s presentation.
