AZP Ending Homelessness Dashboard
The Adelaide Zero Project Ending Homelessness Dashboard, seen below, comprises four visualisations that we are using to track our progress towards our goal of achieving and sustaining functional zero street homelessness in the inner city of Adelaide as part of the Advance to Zero (AtoZ) Campaign.
The data and information within these visualisations is live and updates throughout the day as changes are made to the Adelaide Zero Project By-Name List. Information on how to interpret each visualisation is outlined below the dashboard.
To see the Adelaide Zero Project Monthly Dashboard, click here.
1. To end homelessness, we must understand homelessness.
Homelessness in the inner city of Adelaide is dynamic and constantly changing. The Adelaide Zero Project conceptualises rough sleeping homelessness as a system with ‘inflow’, ‘active homelessness’ and ‘outflow’.
This system diagram should be read from left to right.
On the left, the data for ‘returned from inactive’, ‘returned from housing’ and ‘newly identified’ shows the inflow into rough sleeping homelessness, in the City of Adelaide, in the last 28 days.
In the centre, ‘people experiencing homelessness’ shows the number of people known to be experiencing rough sleeping (or now in temporary accommodation) in the City of Adelaide over the last 90 days.
On the right, ‘inactive’ and ‘housing outcomes’ show the number of people moved into these categories in the last 28 days, as well as the overall number since May 2018 when the Adelaide Zero Project commenced.
Those people within the housing outcomes metric remain housed and have not returned to homelessness in the inner city. Some people that were previously housed may now be recorded in the active homeless, or inactive metrics after being returned from housing.
The Adelaide Zero Project monthly data report shows more than 1,038 housing outcomes since 2018.
2. We can end homelessness by working upstream before a person becomes homeless.
People experiencing rough sleeping homelessness engage with multiple services and systems outside of the homelessness system. This includes the health mental health and criminal justice systems. Engagement with these services and systems can occur prior to experiences of homelessness, or during experiences of homelessness.
When people are experiencing rough sleeping homelessness in the City of Adelaide, they are asked to undertake a survey called the VI-SPDAT^. Through the survey, people are asked to identify how many times these system interactions occurred in the prior six month period. Most people newly identified as homeless each month, complete a VI-SPDAT in that month. These service and system interactions generally occur in the six month period prior to an experience of rough sleeping homelessness in the City of Adelaide.
Each of these service or system interactions was an opportunity to end or prevent a person’s subsequent experience of rough sleeping homelessness in the City of Adelaide.
There are people interacting with these systems today that may end up homeless in the inner city in the next six months.
Today is the time to begin working upstream to prevent, reduce and end homelessness.
Some people self report multiple system interactions (in the same system).
^ Not all persons have completed a VI-SPDAT survey. Some people have completed more than one survey.
3. It isn’t safe to live on the streets in Adelaide.
The VI-SPDAT asks a number of questions about perceptions of personal safety, including experiences of violence while rough sleeping. Where a respondent has identified one risk or issue related to their personal safety, data has been aggregated, and then coded by current status on the By-Name List.
^ Not all persons have completed a VI-SPDAT survey. Some people have completed more than one survey.
More than 80% of all people that experienced rough sleeping in the inner city, reported feeling unsafe.
4. Ending homelessness requires safe, stable and secure housing with supports.
The word cloud below is generated from the top 100 words used when people are asked the question: “What do you need to be safe and well?”