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.
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 – 25 years or older without any dependents under 18 years old B) Youth – between 16 and 24 years old, living independently, will be given a youth AHVTT C) Family – one or more people with one or more children under 18 years old in their care |
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.. |
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.
