We are currently in the process of transitioning from the Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT) to the Australian Homelessness Vulnerability Tool (AHVTT) and implementing a new By-Name List (BNL) system to better manage and coordinate support services across Logan and South-East Queensland.
While we finalise this transition, there will be a temporary pause in the generation of our regular reports and data updates on homelessness trends and assessments. We understand the importance of this information to our community and service partners, and we are working diligently to resume these updates as soon as possible.
Please check back soon for further updates, or subscribe to our newsletter for notifications. Your patience and support during this period of improvement is greatly appreciated as we aim to provide more effective, real-time data to help us ensure that homelessness in Logan is rare, brief, and a one-time occurrence.
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Real time data helps us to get a true picture of homelessness in Logan and track our progress towards ending homelessness. We use the Logan Zero homelessness data to understand how people move in and out of the system, and to understand how the system is responding. From this we recommend and advocate for system improvements to end homelessness.
Make the experience of rough sleeping homelessness in Logan LGA rare, brief, and non-recurring by achieving functional zero rough sleeping by the year 2025
Building community commitment to the campaign and beginning data capture
By Name List (BNL)
| A by-name list is a comprehensive list of every person in a community experiencing homelessness, updated in real time. |
Household units | Each household that presents will be counted once as a unit e.g. a family with 3 people will be considered 1 household unit. Individuals would also be considered 1 household unit. |
Household types | A) Individual adult – A single person, greater than or equal to 26 years old B) Individual youth – A single young person between the ages of 16-25 years, detached from their family, that does not have suitable living alternatives and a safe living environment. This includes: – rough sleeping, couch surfing – in emergency youth accommodation – have a history of chronic homelessness – have transitioned into homelessness from service systems It doesn’t include young people that are: – living in government funded group homes or foster care – in a 6-24 months transitional accommodation such as a Youth Foyer – that are presenting as newly homeless or episodic homeless where there is capacity to quickly resolve their living situation such as youth runaways, which can be episodic (1-2 nights) but not chronically homeless C) Families – A group of people, any age, presenting together e.g. couple without dependents, family with dependents, single parent households, multigenerational family etc. |
Inflow
| People engaged or presenting to a service that identifies a person as homeless either as: – newly identified as homeless on the BNL – returning from housing (i.e. was housed and then returned into homelessness system) – returning from inactive (i.e. was inactivated after 90+ days of no updates or institutionalised and returned into homelessness system) |
Outflow
| People who have exited homelessness either as: – permanently housed (i.e. housed with security/tenure) – moved to inactive (was inactivated after 90+ days of no updates, institutionalised, or moved out of community) – deceased |
Actively homeless | People who are currently experiencing homelessness |
Rough sleeper | People sleeping in outdoor areas or place not meant for habitation most nights e.g. streets, parks, cars, etc.. |
Temporarily sheltered | People who are in a form of shelter that does not have a tenancy/stability e.g. hotels, motels, couch surfing, crisis accommodation, etc..
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Functional Zero
| A milestone that needs to be sustained to indicate that a community has measurably ended homelessness for a population.
Functional zero is the state at which a population (e.g. rough sleepers) is no greater than the six monthly average of housing placements and is maintained across a period of time.
When it is achieved, homelessness is rare and brief for that population. |
Improvement median | Median (middle value) of rough sleepers. For Logan Zero, the median indicates that if a system continued operating without changes, it would likely continue to around the median number of people. |
Quality By Name List data certification | Logan Zero works with Community Solutions and AAEH to undertake a quality BNL certification via the use of a scorecard. The scorecard helps to assess that a community has full coverage, policies, and procedures in place to capture and maintain data and appropriate data infrastructure. This helps to ensure that data has comprehensive coverage, is representative, and real-time. |
Please note:
Data released by the Logan Zero campaign is indicative information of homelessness in the Logan Local Government are (LGA) and must be considered with the caveats below:
Project phase and data quality certification:
Data display:
For further information, please contact Logan Zero team on via email: [email protected]
A by-name list is a comprehensive list of every person in a community experiencing homelessness, updated in real time.
Each household that presents will be counted once as a unit e.g. a family with 3 people will be considered 1 household unit. Individuals would also be considered 1 household unit.
It doesn’t include young people that are:
Families – A group of people, any age, presenting together e.g. couple without dependents, family with dependents, single parent households, multigenerational family etc
People engaged or presenting to a service that identifies a person as homeless either as:
People who have exited homelessness either as:
People who are currently experiencing homelessness
People sleeping in outdoor areas or place not meant for habitation most nights e.g. streets, parks, cars, etc.
People who are in a form of shelter that does not have a tenancy/stability e.g. hotels, motels, couch surfing, crisis accommodation, etc.
A milestone that needs to be sustained to indicate that a community has measurably ended homelessness for a population.
Functional zero is the state at which a population (e.g. rough sleepers) is no greater than the six monthly average of housing placements and is maintained across a period of time.
When it is achieved, homelessness is rare and brief for that population.
Median (middle value) of rough sleepers. For Logan Zero, the median indicates that if a system continued operating without changes, it would likely continue to around the median number of people.
Logan Zero works with Community Solutions and AAEH to undertake a quality BNL certification via the use of a scorecard. The scorecard helps to assess that a community has full coverage, policies, and procedures in place to capture and maintain data and appropriate data infrastructure. This helps to ensure that data has comprehensive coverage, is representative, and real-time.
Use this dashboard to understand who is homeless in the region and how Logan Zero is progressing towards the goal.
We advise you refer to the definitions and caveats prior to viewing the information.
Watch this short video that describes how by name data helps communities end homelessness.
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