On May 8, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD published a Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Emergency Review and Approval.  This Proposed Information Collection includes the following documents related to the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP):

• The Initial Performance report (which will serve as the first Quarterly Report)
• The Quarterly Report

Included in the Proposed Information are Revised HMIS Data Standards.  These revised HMIS Data Standards will apply to all service providers using HMIS.  These revisions include more than the inclusion of data standards applicable to HPRP and HUD encourages all HMIS-users to review the Standards and provide comments.

Key updates to the HMIS Data Standards Draft Notice include:

• The introduction of new Program Descriptor Data Elements
• The update and addition of new Universal Data Elements
• The update and addition of new Program-Specific Data Elements

The team at Bitfocus has already begun the task of reviewing the updates in the draft notice, and are preparing to make the necessary systematic and programmatic adjustments necessary.

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