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California launched a new website this week revealing a statewide picture of its homelessness problem and the efforts to correct it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Homeless Data Integration System<\/span><\/a> integrates data maintained by the 44 state planning bodies that coordinate services for homeless people, also known as continuums of care. Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a press release Wednesday that the new system, which was developed by the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, will help guide state policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t fix what you can\u2019t measure and having a statewide data system will help us\u00a0<\/span>determine what\u2019s working and what isn\u2019t, important insight we can use to create\u00a0<\/span>accountability and strengthen our response going forward,\u201d Newsom said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials at the HCFC said the new system offers a comprehensive view of homelessness initiatives, providing metrics on service usage across geographic regions and the reach of services to various demographic groups, like veterans, minors or ethnic minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

California’s homelessness population grew 16% between 2007 and 2020, with the sharpest rises arriving in the last few years, according to<\/a> the\u00a0U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u00a0<\/span>And with 161,000 homeless Californians recorded in January 2020, according to the new website,\u00a0<\/span>California\u00a0has more homeless people than any other state by a significant margin, <\/span>according<\/span><\/a> to the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.<\/span><\/p>\n

California\u2019s new system increases the resolution on those top-line statistics, showing, for example, that more than 91,000 homeless people moved into permanent housing in 2020. The portal also shows that the number of people who received government services increased by 131% between 2017 and 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new platform was developed by the wealth management firm Plante Moran for $1.2 million. According to the HCFC, it was designed to integrate with state benefits platforms likely to be used by homeless people, like CalFresh, California’s food stamps program.<\/span><\/p>\n

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, whose city <\/span>saw a 177% increase<\/span><\/a> in homelessness between 2017 and 2019, praised the new platform on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[It] will provide the transparency critically needed to hold the state, counties, and cities accountable for getting our homeless neighbors off of the streets and into housing,\u201d Liccardo said in a press release.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Officials said they hope the new data warehouse will allow them to better understand \u2014 and ameliorate \u2014 the state’s homelessness crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":39585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_grayscale_images":true,"grayscale_contrast":0,"sponsored_content":false,"display_author_bio":true,"story_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20650,4677],"tags":[44,233,806,5668],"people":[],"special-report":[],"authors":[4696],"class_list":["post-39582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-analytics","category-state","tag-california","tag-data","tag-homelessness","tag-gov-gavin-newsom","author-colin-wood"],"yoast_head":"\nCalifornia launches statewide homelessness data platform | StateScoop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/california-launches-statewide-homelessness-data-platform\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California launches statewide homelessness data platform | StateScoop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Officials said they hope the new data warehouse will allow them to better understand \u2014 and ameliorate \u2014 the state's homelessness crisis.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/california-launches-statewide-homelessness-data-platform\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"StateScoop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StateScoop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-09T18:41:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-03T18:10:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1311148803-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1335\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Colin Wood\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@State_Scoop\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@State_Scoop\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/california-launches-statewide-homelessness-data-platform\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/california-launches-statewide-homelessness-data-platform\/\",\"name\":\"California launches statewide homelessness data platform | StateScoop\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/california-launches-statewide-homelessness-data-platform\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/california-launches-statewide-homelessness-data-platform\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1311148803-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-09T18:41:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-03T18:10:21+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/california-launches-statewide-homelessness-data-platform\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/california-launches-statewide-homelessness-data-platform\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1311148803-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1311148803-1.jpg\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1335,\"caption\":\"California Gov. 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