The U.S. Departments of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) and Justice (DOJ) entered into an
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 to seven communities to develop supportive housing
for persons cycling between the jail or prison systems and the
homeless service systems using pay for success (PFS) as a funding
mechanism. HUD-DOJ announced seven grantees from across the country
in June 2016. The PFS Demonstration grant supports activities
throughout the PFS lifecycle, including feasibility analysis,
transaction structuring, and outcome evaluation and success
payments, with each grantee receiving funds for different stages in
the PFS lifecycle. Through the national evaluation, which is funded
through an interagency agreement between HUD and DOJ and managed by
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD-DOJ seek to
assess whether PFS is a viable model for scaling supportive housing
to improve outcomes for a re-entry population. The main goal of the
evaluation is to learn how the PFS model is implemented in diverse
settings with different structures, populations, and community
contexts. The Urban Institute has designed a multi-disciplinary,
multi-method approach to “learn as we do” and meet the key
objectives of the formative evaluation. To understand project
implementation, the evaluation includes data collection on both the
time that project partners dedicate to each PFS project as well as
PFS partner perceptions and interactions and community-level
changes that may benefit the target population. This information
collection request is for an ongoing time survey and an annual
partnership web survey. The time survey will be used to assess
staff time spent on development of each PFS project throughout the
different lifecycle phases and the partnership survey will be used
to document partner perceptions and interactions and
community-level changes that may benefit the target
population.
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USC 1701z-1 Name of Law: Research and Demonstrations
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 supportive housing 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, including feasibility
analysis, transaction structuring, and outcome evaluation and
success payments, with each grantee receiving funds for different
phases in the PFS lifecycle. HUD and DOJ funded a national
evaluation to assess whether PFS is a viable model for scaling
supportive housing in order to improve outcomes for a re-entry
population. The evaluation is funded through an interagency
agreement and is managed by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and
Research. 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. The
Urban Institute has designed a multi-disciplinary, multi-method
process study to “learn as we do” and meet the key objectives of
the formative evaluation. This information collection request
concerns two specific data collection activities that are part of
the national evaluation: (A) A Partnership Survey will be conducted
about the development and functioning of partnerships and
community-level collaborations that may benefit the target
population. (B) Time Use Interview will be 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 national
evaluation also includes other activities not discussed in this
package, including annual site visits involving semi-structured
interviews with key stakeholders and observation of partnership
meetings, monthly calls to discuss implementation progress and
successes and challenges encountered, and review of key site
documents.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Clean Time Use Interview Email- Appendix B.docx
HUD DOJ Pay for Success 30-Day Notice.pdf
Time Use Interviews