The U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Justice (DOJ) have entered into an inter-agency collaboration that combines DOJ's mission to promote safer communities by focusing on the reentry population with HUD's mission to end chronic homelessness. In October 2015, the first deliverable from the collaboration was a NOFA to fund a demonstration of a Pay for Success initiative implementing the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) model for a reentry jail population (hereafter PFS Demonstration NOFA) to demonstrate whether a pay-for-success framework is a cost effective way to scale-up PSH model. Together, HUD-DOJ seek to assess whether providing permanent supportive housing within a pay-for-success (PFS) framework is an efficacious and cost-effective approach to addressing the housing needs of reentrants experiencing homelessness either immediately following release from jail or shortly thereafter. The purpose of this research is to conduct a formative evaluation that documents and analyzes the performance of PFS Demonstration NOFA grantees and the partnerships they form across the pay-for-success lifecycle for implementation. Multiple reports and documents have been published, including Pay for Success Infographic, Baseline Report, and Data Use and Challenges in Using Pay for Success to Implement Permanent Supportive Housing: Lessons From the HUD-DOJ Demonstration. The Year 2 Annual Report was published in January 2021 and the Year 3 Annual Report and updated infographic was published in August 2021, and a fourth report covering years four and five of the demonstration is expected in the end of 2025.

Note: The status of this project is ongoing.