New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency Posted on November 16, 2010August 7, 2017 by Ronan Martin How an entire state uses AWARDS to collect data from more than 1000 programs that serve the homeless Who: New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency Role: Lead agency for the New Jersey HMIS Project Started: 2004 Location: Trenton, NJ Clients Served: Over 1,300 annually Annual Operating Budget: $13 million The Situation: Changes in legislation When the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) directed every Continuum of Care in America to collect an unduplicated count of the homeless persons served in their communities, this directive included a mandate to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) that would also track the demographics and services used by h

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