Evaluation of the HUD-DOJ Pay for Success Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration

In 2016, the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) entered into an innovative 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 in June 2016 to seven communities to develop permanent supportive housing (PSH) for persons cycling between the jail or prison systems using Pay for Success (PFS) as a funding mechanism. The PFS Demonstration grant supports activities throughout the PFS lifecycle. In January 2017, HUD awarded the evaluation contract to the Urban Institute, to assess whether PFS is a viable model for scaling supportive housing to improve outcomes for a re-entry population. The overarching goal of this formative evaluation is to learn how the PFS model is implemented in diverse settings with different structures, populations, and community contexts. Throughout the evaluation, two data collection instruments (Annual Partnership Survey and Time Use Survey) have been used to collect information regarding the implementation of the PFS PSH demonstration directly from staff at demonstration partner agencies in each of the study sites. The first OMB approval was in October 2018, the second approval was in 2021, and now the third approval is sought this year. This information collection renewal request includes: (1) the HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners Annual Web-based Partnership Survey (referred to as the Partnership Survey), which is focused on the development and functioning of partnerships and community-level collaborations that may benefit the target population, and (2) the HUD-DOJ PFS Key Project Partners Quarterly Time Use Survey (referred to as the Time Use Survey), which is being conducted as part of a study of the staff time that is used to develop each PFS project, through the phases of its PFS life cycle of feasibility analysis, transaction structuring, and project implementation. The authority to collect information is in Sections 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-609) (12 U.S.C. §§ 1701z-1; 1701z-2(d) and (g)). Please see Appendix A for the relevant section of HUD’s statutory authority.

The latest form for Evaluation of the HUD-DOJ Pay for Success Permanent Supportive Housing Demonstration expires 2027-12-31 and can be found here.

Annual Partnership Survey

Federal Enterprise Architecture: Community and Social Services - Homeownership Promotion