Reporting to Request Federal Funds

Every year the City of New York is required to complete a Point In Time count of unhoused people sleeping on the street within a 12-hour period. It involves hundreds of volunteers and contractors. At the same time, the City’s Department of Homeless Services (DHS) must also collect data on all available and occupied shelter and transitional beds that the City manages. All of the data is collected, cleaned, sorted and prepared for submission to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in order to determine resource allocation for New York. We filled the need for a project manager during this 4 month process, supervising CUCS (Center for Urban Community Services) staff and coordinating data submissions from NYC DHS. We managed the preparation of NYC’s annual numeric estimates of homeless and City-wide emergency and transitional beds as required for the City’s application of federal funding from HUD. Oversaw HUD funding application data requirements including count of homeless and system-wide bed and shelter supply.