Montgomery County Maryland Operating Budget

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Program Description

Interagency Commission on Homelessness

The Montgomery County Continuum of Care (CoC) coordinates the community's policies, strategies, and implementation of a housing and services system to prevent and end homelessness through a collaboration of public and private sector groups. Responsibilities include promoting a community-wide commitment to ending homelessness, providing funding for efforts to promote community-wide planning and strategic use of resources to address homelessness, and improving coordination and integration with mainstream resources and other programs targeted to people experiencing homelessness. The Interagency Commission on Homelessness is a group of appointed leaders of the CoC who have authority to make decisions on behalf of the CoC.

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Services to End and Prevent Homelessness

Program Contacts

Contact Christine Hong of the HHS - Services to End and Prevent Homelessness at 240.777.1179 or Deborah Lambert of the Office of Management and Budget at 240.777.2794 for more information regarding this department's operating budget.

Program Performance Measures

Program Performance Measures	Actual FY22	Actual FY23	Estimated FY24	Target FY25	Target FY26
Dollars brought into the continuum from non-County funds ¹	$35,017,603	$8,130,512	$5,766,676	$4,791,667	$4,791,667
Number of individuals with lived experience participating as ICH Commissioner or on committees ²	8	5	11	11	11
Number of total homeless individuals counted during the Annual Point in Time Count ³	581	894	819	753	693

¹  There was no additional Covid grant funding in FY23.
²  The current 5 committee members are actively recruiting additional members to get the committee membership to 11 in FY24. The Interagency Committee on Homelessness (ICH) full commission has two terms (3 years each, a total of 6 years), but the ICH committees do not have a set term of service. In FY23, the committee had multiple recruiting events but was not successful in getting consistent membership due to several barriers both the committee members and people with lived experiences face.
³  In FY23, homelessness increased due to many factors, including: fewer housing vacancies, higher rents, continued denials due to criminal and/or credit background issues, increased evictions, growing ineligibility for federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program funds, and increasing usage of County shelters by clients from neighboring jurisdictions.

Program Budget Changes

FY25 Approved Changes	Expenditures	FTEs
FY24 Approved	4000	0.00
FY25 Approved	4000	0.00