Beginning July 5, 2017 at 10am, the Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA) will be accepting online pre-applications for the Elderly/Disabled site-based waiting lists. Click the thumbnail below to download a PDF file with more information.
Read MoreFree mail service is now available at the Cambridge Multi-Service Center, for people who:
are homeless, staying in a Cambridge shelter;
are homeless, sleeping outside in Cambridge; or,
are “doubled-up” in Cambridge.
Running Reports in Clarity Are you making the most of your Clarity user account by running reports? As a Clarity user, you have several types of aggregate and non-aggregate program level reports available. If you haven’t used the reporting module yet, we encourage you to take a look at the choices find one or more that are meaningful.
Read MoreClarity Security Enhancement Earlier this month Clarity released a software update that prevents any internet browser from saving your HMIS password for future logins. This is an important security provision that helps to protect sensitive data and is required for compliance with HUD’s baseline standards for security.
Read MoreSites on the schedule whose names are marked with an asterisk are demographically restricted based on the specific population served by the host site; click a site’s “more details” link for specifics. Other sites are open to anyone homeless in Cambridge.
Read MoreCambridge has a network of homeless service providers, faith-based partners, and public services that coordinate efforts during extreme weather conditions. The attached plan and Resource Sheet describe these efforts.
Read MoreOur monthly CoC-wide Homeless Services Planning Committee meeting for October featured two informative guest presentations.
Read MorePlease note location change to the School Committee meeting room at 459 Broadway St.
Cambridge Vice Mayor McGovern is convening the first meeting of a regional summit on homelessness on October 27, 2016. The goal of the summit is to bring together policymakers and department heads from Cambridge, Boston, Somerville, Everett, Chelsea, Medford and Malden for four meetings over the course of the next several months to address homelessness on a regional basis.
Read MoreData Quality in Clarity Planning and Development staff review data on a quarterly basis at the minimum, but Program Managers and front end users are encouraged to run their own reports more frequently to evaluate data for your specific programs. Remember, your data quality influences not just your project and agency’s reporting, but our CoC’s System Level Performance Measure Report to HUD.
Read MoreHUD and Federal Partners Release Version 5 of 2014 Data Standards More updates to the Data Standards are here and they officially go live on October 1, 2016. Clarity will update our data collection screens to 2014 Version 5, and Planning and Development will update our system to begin using these screens the evening of September 30th. In the meantime, you may notice some changes to answer choices when entering data, and this is expected.v
Read MoreThe FY 2016 Cambridge CoC Consolidated Application and Priority Listing are available for review:
Read MoreBeginning in October, the Cambridge Housing Authority will open up their waitlist to apply for Housing Choice Vouchers. All eligible clients joining the waitlist in October will have equal priority based on a lottery, and clients joining from November on will be added to the list on a first come first served basis.
Read MoreUPDATED Client Consent Forms Now Available in other Languages! After updating our Release of Information workflow, we made some minor changes to our ROI documents in English and these updated versions are now available in Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese.
Read MoreCambridge’s Community Preservation Act Committee will hold a hearing at 6:00 pm next Thursday, July 28, at City Hall, on how Fiscal Year 2017 CPA funds should be allocated between the three allowable uses: affordable housing, open space, and historic preservation.
Read MoreEarlier this week, Lynne Tyree of the Cambridge Multi-Service Center trained provider staff from a number of CoC agencies on housing search techniques they can use to assist their clients while the community deals with the gap in HomeStart’s funding until it returns as part of Coordinated Access in January 2017.
Read MoreThe 2016 CoC competition offers the opportunity for New Project submissions to be included in the Cambridge CoC’s application for funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Read MoreEach year, the City of Cambridge Continuum of Care applies for funds available for homeless services from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Read MoreThe Cambridge CoC is required to review and update its Governance Charter on an annual basis (24 CFR Part 578.7). The original Charter was adopted by the CoC in April 2014 after several weeks of review and revisions by CoC stakeholders.
Read MoreCambridge provider agencies’ staff are invited to attend an upcoming training on Housing Search taking place Monday, July 18, 2016 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM at the Cambridge Multi-Service Center (Western Ave entrance).
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