LA Family Housing, an LA-based non-profit working to end the homelessness crisis, engaged the help of Hack for LA to identify and design a more efficient & effective solution for matching multiple individuals who experience homelessness as potential co-tenants, and placing the matched individuals in suitable shared housing units.
LAFH uses a system called Clarity to track their information for all tenants, and knowing what information they have access to can inform our design. Identify what data fields LAFH and/or Clarity have and use, and populate with dummy data if possible.
Action Items
[x] Identify data fields with LAFH-- see linked resource, HMIS Data Standards
[ ] Review with PO/client to learn which are most used and most useful
[ ] Create a front end interface to populate with dummy data to feed our system
Overview
LAFH uses a system called Clarity to track their information for all tenants, and knowing what information they have access to can inform our design. Identify what data fields LAFH and/or Clarity have and use, and populate with dummy data if possible.
Action Items
[x] Identify data fields with LAFH-- see linked resource, HMIS Data Standards
[ ] Review with PO/client to learn which are most used and most useful
[ ] Create a front end interface to populate with dummy data to feed our system
[ ] Create dummy data (How many records?)
Resources
HMIS Data Standards