TPCH General Council Meets November 21, 2024

Join us for the quarterly General Council meeting of the TPCH membership. This meeting will be held in person at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, located at 5049 E Broadway.

For a list of members eligible to vote in this meeting, see the TPCH Voting Member Roster linked below.

Please note that the meeting will be 12:30pm – 2:30pm, followed by additional training opportunities 2:45pm – 4:15pm.

Summary Meeting Agenda

Roll Call and Consent Agenda

Shannon Fowler, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

Community Celebrations

Shannon Fowler, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

CoC Lead Updates

Kat Davis, Continuum of Care Lead Agency (City of Tucson)

CoC Board Updates

Shannon Fowler, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

Housing Central Command Updates

Housing Central Command Leadership

Youth Homelessness System Improvement (YHSI) Grant Update and Governance Amendment Motion

Kyle Kerns, Continuum of Care Lead Agency (City of Tucson)

Committee and Coalition Updates

Committee and Coalition Representatives

New Business/Announcements

Group Discussion

Breakout Session Options

Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) Provider Session: Youth Engagement

TPCH Continuum of Care Program Grant Committee

Safety Planning

Arizona Center to End Sexual & Domestic Violence

Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) Housing and Health Opportunities (H2O) Information Session

TJ Reed, Solari Inc.

Download the Meeting Materials:

11.21.2024 TPCH General Council Meeting Agenda

8.8.2024 General Council Meeting Minutes - Draft

TPCH Voting Member Roster - 11.21.2024

Proposed Amendment to TPCH Governance Charter - Youth Action Committee/Youth Homelessness System Improvement

TPCH has spent all available Prevention and Rapid Resolution Funds

Thank you to all case managers that helped apply for and distribute the TPCH Prevention and Rapid Resolution Funds through the community!

We spent all of our original $400,000 back in June, and have now spent the additional $200,000 that was dedicated to the program. With this, we do not have any more funding to continue this program. Case managers are encouraged to continue working with clients to determine alternative sources of funding and assistance.

Thank you once again for your assistance with getting these funds to the community.

TPCH General Council Meets August 8, 2024

Join us for the quarterly General Council meeting of the TPCH membership. This meeting will be held in person at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, located at 5049 E Broadway.

For a list of members eligible to vote in this meeting, see the TPCH Voting Member Roster linked below.

Please note that the meeting will be 12:30pm – 2:30pm, followed by additional training opportunities 2:45pm – 4:15pm.

Summary Meeting Agenda

Roll Call and Consent Agenda

Shannon Fowler, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

Community Celebrations

Shannon Fowler, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

CoC Lead Updates

Elaine MacPherson, Continuum of Care Lead Agency (City of Tucson)

Board Updates

Shannon Fowler, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

Housing Central Command Updates

Housing Central Command Leadership

HUD Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)

Elaine MacPherson, Continuum of Care Lead Agency (City of Tucson)

Committee and Coalition Updates

Committee and Coalition Representatives

New Business/Announcements

Group Discussion

Shannon Fowler, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

Committee and Coalition Representatives

Group Discussion

Download the Meeting Materials:

8.8.2024_TPCH General Council Meeting Agenda

TPCH Voting Member Roster_8.8.2024

GENERAL COUNCIL_MIN_5.9.2024_Draft

U of A Southwest Institute for Research on Women releases census updates to Housing Insecurity and Potential Homelessness Report

The University of Arizona Southwest Institute for Research on Women has released its most recent update to its report on Housing Insecurity Indicators and Potential Homelessness Estimates for Arizona and Pima County. This report measures current housing insecurity with newer census data.

Download the report here.

This most recent survey wave contains multiple positive developments:

The positive macroeconomic situation has continued to hold steadily at both the national and state levels.
The unemployment rate in Arizona, 3.8% in March 2024, is a modest decrease relative to 4.1% in February and remains below historical averages.
In the previous survey wave, collected February 6th-March 4th 2024, the proportion of non-current renters in Arizona was 6.3%. In the most recent survey, conducted March 5th-April 1st 2024, this proportion rose very slightly to 6.7%.
The proportion of these non-current renters viewing eviction in the next two months as “very likely” remained very low at 8.5% (9.9% last survey wave).

Throughout all of 2023 housing insecurity among Arizona renters remained stubbornly high despite historically low unemployment.

These last two survey waves contain the first clear signals that the breadth of housing insecurity in Arizona is easing substantially. That said, lower-income and BIPOC Arizona households remain disproportionately likely to report being not current on their rent payments and finding it very difficult to meet usual expenses.
The National Equity Atlas estimated that 79% of non-current renters in Arizona are POC and 75% are low-income (based on the Census HPS data wave collected Jan 9th-Feb 5th 2024).
Mortgage holders in Arizona continue to be in a strong financial position relative to renters.
- Only 4.2% reported being not current on mortgage payments (down slightly from 5.3% last wave).
- Although among this small share of non-current mortgage holders concern about the likelihood of foreclosure in the next two months increased this wave to 16% from only 1% last wave.
Among non-current Arizona renters, the depth of rental debt has decreased.
- This most recent survey indicates that, among Arizona renters who are behind on their rent, 66%, are only behind on their payments 1 month or less.
- And 71% of non-current Arizona renters were only 2 months behind on rent or less.
- In the fall of 2022 Tucson rent prices began decreasing on average, albeit very modestly.
- In the Spring of 2023 rent prices in Tucson registered modest upticks in median/average rent prices. Despite these increases, seasonally adjusted metrics of Tucson rent prices increased only 3.5% between April 2023 and April 2024.
- This is a substantial slowdown in the rate of rental price increases we have seen in recent years.
In addition, there is unambiguous good news in the rental vacancy rate, which has been trending upwards since the end of 2021, and hit an 8-year high in the 1st quarter of 2024. However, countervailing signals worth attention include:
- only 51% of all Arizona respondents reported they had not experienced pressure to move in the last 6 months, down from 62% of respondents reporting no pressure last wave.
- 67% of Arizona renters reported an increase in their monthly rent in the last year (up from 57% last survey wave) and 50% reported an increase of $100 or more (up from 43% last wave).

The most significant development in this report is that eviction filings have fallen substantially since January and suggest a substantial easing of housing insecurity among Pima County renters.

Relative to a peak of 1307 eviction filings in January of 2024, the count of eviction filings fell 41% to 771 in April. We have not seen the monthly count of eviction filings this low since November of 2021.

Other metrics suggest continuing reason for concern:

12% of Arizona households reported reducing or not paying expenses for basic household necessities (such as medicine or food) “almost every month” in the last 12 months to pay an energy bill (66% of households reported “never” being in this situation).
Credit card debt balances nationwide and in Arizona have increased 33% between Q4 2022-Q4 2023.
And since November of 2023, counts of calls to 211 from Pima County indicate a very substantial increase in calls related to housing and shelter and utilities in recent months.

Download the report here.

TPCH has spent all available Prevention and Rapid Resolution Funds

Thank you to all case managers that helped apply for and distribute the TPCH Prevention and Rapid Resolution Funds through the community!

Thank you once again for your assistance with getting these funds to the community.

TPCH General Council Meets May 9, 2024

Join us for the quarterly General Council meeting of the TPCH membership. This meeting will be held in person at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, located at 5049 E Broadway.

For a list of members eligible to vote in this meeting, see the TPCH Voting Member Roster linked below.

Please note that the meeting will be 12:30pm - 2:30pm, followed by additional training opportunities 2:45pm - 4:15pm.

Summary Meeting Agenda

Roll Call and Consent Agenda

Jocelyn Muzzin, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

Community Celebrations

Jocelyn Muzzin, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

CoC Lead Updates

Elaine MacPherson, Continuum of Care Lead Agency (City of Tucson)

Board Updates

Jocelyn Muzzin, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

Housing Central Command Updates

Housing Central Command Leadership

Continuum of Care Annual Election Ballot

Jesus Federico, Continuum of Care Project Coordinator

Committee and Coalition Updates

Committee and Coalition Representatives

New Business/Announcements

Group Discussion

Sessions Offered:

Shelter Providers Discussion: System Enhancements and Voucher Move On

Mari Vasquez, Interagency Resource Coordinator, City of Tucson

Elaine MacPherson, Homeless System Improvement Supervisor, City of Tucson

Diversion and Rapid Resolution Funds through the Garcia Family Foundation

Kyle Kerns, Continuum of Care Project Coordinator, City of Tucson

LGBTQIA+ Equity

Shannon Fowler, Assistant Research Social Scientist, University of Arizona Southwest Institute for Research on Women (UA SIROW)

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5.9.2024_TPCH General Council Meeting Agenda

TPCH Voting Member Roster_5.9.2024

GENERAL COUNCIL_MIN_02.15.2024_Draft

TPCH General Council Meets February 15, 2024

Join us for the quarterly General Council meeting of the TPCH membership. This meeting will be held in person at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, located at 5049 E Broadway.

For a list of members eligible to vote in this meeting, see the TPCH Voting Member Roster linked below.

Please note that the meeting will be 12:30pm - 2:30pm, followed by additional training opportunities 2:45pm - 4:15pm.

Summary Meeting Agenda

Roll Call and Consent Agenda

Jocelyn Muzzin, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

Community Celebrations

Jocelyn Muzzin, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

CoC Lead Updates

Elaine MacPherson, Continuum of Care Lead Agency (City of Tucson)

Board Updates

Jocelyn Muzzin, Continuum of Care Board Chairperson

Motion: to add the following language to the TPCH Governance Charter clarifying the purpose of TPCH Committees:

“While each committee is operating within its domain, they are able to make decisions on behalf of the CoC with the following exceptions:
a) decisions that would also impact another committee's domain, and
b) decisions with financial implications.”

Housing Central Command Updates

Austin Puca, Continuum of Care Manager

Committee and Coalition Updates

Committee and Coalition Representatives

Sessions Offered:

Community Discussion on Discharge Planning
(Facilitated by the CoC Lead)

Outreach Teams: New Waves of Street Drugs and Things to Look Out For

(Facilitated by Sergeant Jack Julsing and Lieutenant Matt Brady of the Tucson Police Department)

Download the Meeting Materials:

TPCH General Council Meeting Draft Agenda (February 2024)

TPCH Voting Member Roster as of November 2023

TPCH General Council Meeting Minutes (November 2023)

DRAFT TPCH Governance Charter Revisions

TPCH to Host Overview of the Housing Central Command Initiative

Thursday, January 18, 2024

320 N. Commerce Park Loop, Tucson, AZ 85745

Sentinel Building

9:00-11:00 AM

The TPCH Program Grant Committee is hosting a series of sessions on performance in our Continuum of Care related to bed utilization, grant expenditure, and prompt access to housing. Previously, the committee held a discussion on increasing income for participants enrolled in housing programs.

In the spirit of our collective goal to utilize all available funded beds, expend all grant funds, and rapidly house people experiencing homelessness, TPCH leadership welcomes the community to attend an overview of the recently launched TPCH Housing Central Command initiative. The Housing Central Command initiative is based on a crisis response model developed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to rehouse people after natural disasters. In our community's partnership with the Housing Central Command team, we are exploring the many ways our system can be retooled to optimize services and rapidly house people experiencing unsheltered homelessness.

All perspectives interested in learning more about our system improvement efforts are welcome at this conversation.

Those who attend the session can expect to learn:

The core principles of the Housing Central Command approach,
Anticipated changes to our coordinated community approach to rapidly house people experiencing unsheltered homelessness,
An introduction to tools under development to make these changes possible, and
A process map for the new approach under development.

U of A Southwest Institute for Research on Women releases census updates to Housing Insecurity and Potential Homelessness Report

Download the report here.

This most recent survey wave contains multiple pieces of concerning news.

In the previous survey wave, collected September 20th-October 2nd 2023, the proportion of non-current renters in Arizona was 11.5%. In the most recent survey, conducted October 18th-30th 2023, this proportion fell modestly to 9.4%. While the proportion not current on rent payments decreased, the proportion of these non-current renters viewing eviction in the next two months as “very likely” increased to 19.9% (up from only 5% last survey wave).
In October of 2023 we observed the largest monthly count of eviction filings in Pima County since the onset of the pandemic with 1307 eviction filings. Eviction filings continue to increase despite the strong economy and the relative slowing of rent price increases over the past year
Housing insecurity among Arizona renters remains stubbornly high despite historically low unemployment. Rising rents and inflation are likely the central drivers of this disconnect, especially for households with limitations on their ability to benefit from the strong labor market.
Lower-income and BIPOC Arizona households remain disproportionately likely to report being not current on their rent payments and finding it very difficult to meet usual expenses. 39% of Black Arizonan heads of households reported finding it very difficult to meet usual expenses in the past week in this most recent survey. This situation was also reported by 25% of Hispanic or Latino heads of household in Arizona, and over 40% of households earning less than $25k a year (surveyed this wave).

There is continuing good news to report on rents.

The positive macroeconomic situation has continued to hold steadily at both the national and state levels. The unemployment rate in Arizona, 4.0% in September, is a modest increase relative to a low of 3.4% this past May but remains well below historical averages.
Mortgage holders in Arizona continue to be in a strong financial position relative to renters. Only 6.3% reported being not current on mortgage payments (up modestly from a low of 3.5% in August of this year). However, among these non-current mortgage holders concern about the likelihood of foreclosure in the next two months is at the lowest levels observed in these surveys to date. Further good news is that since, roughly, February of 2023, counts of calls to 211 from Pima County indicate a substantial decrease in calls related to housing and shelter, utilities, and food requests between February and July.
In the fall of 2022 Tucson rent prices began decreasing on average, albeit very modestly. In the Spring of 2023 of rent prices in Tucson registered modest upticks in median/average rent prices. Despite these increases, seasonally adjusted metrics of Tucson rent prices increased only 3.3% between September 2022 and September 2023. This is a substantial slowdown in the rate of rental price increases we have seen in recent years. In addition, there is unambiguous good news in the rental vacancy rate, which has been trending upwards since the end of 2021, and hit an 8-year high in the 2nd quarter of 2023. On the other hand, only 47% of all Arizona respondents reported they had not experienced pressure to move in the last 6 months. 10% of Arizona households reported reducing or not paying expenses for basic household necessities (such as medicine or food) “almost every month” in the last 12 months in order to pay an energy bill. Only 50% of households reported “never” being in this situation.

Download the report here.

TPCH and SAFEE Jointly Host Panel On older adults experiencing homelessness and/or domestic abuse on December 1, 2023 at 9am at the 320 N Commerce Park Loop

Panel on older adults experiencing homelessness and/or domestic abuse on December 1, 2023 at 9am at the 320 N Commerce Park Loop

This panel will host representatives from the following organizations:

Stop Abuse and Financial Exploitation of Elders (SAFEE)
Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse
City of Tucson
University of Arizona Southwest Institute for Research on Women (UA SIROW)

The agenda for the discussion will be the following:

Introduction & Overview of Older Adult Homelessness Trends and Experiences (15 min)
Discussion of Qualitative Findings Related to Older Adult Homelessness from Homeless Needs Assessment (10 minutes)
Overview of ARC and Needs of Older Adults in Shelter Care (10 minutes)
Overview of Continuum of Care, Coordinated Entry, and Older Adult Resources (10 minutes)
Overview of Shelter and Services Provided by City of Tucson and Experiences/Needs of Older Adults in Care (10 minutes)
Overview of Older Adult Domestic Abuse Issues/Trends and Resources (10 minutes)
Q&A – From Moderator and Panel (25 minutes)

Register at the link below to get more information about quarterly free trainings from the Administration of Resources and Choices.

This flyer below is also available here for download.