Appendix
Acronyms and Technical Terms
- AEA: Annual Evaluation Agenda
- ADR: Accountability, Data, and Research
- ECRHA: Executive Committee for Regional Homeless Alignment
- FY: Fiscal Year
- HSH: Department of Homeless Services and Housing
- IH: Interim Housing
- LTRHA: Leadership Table for Regional Homeless Allignment
- Measure A: the “Affordable Housing, Homelessness Solutions, and Prevention Now Transactions and Use Tax Ordinance”, approved by Los Angeles County voters in November 2024
- PSH: Permanent Supportive Housing
- RFP: Request for Proposals
Longlist of questions
The longlist of questions reflects the full set of questions we crowdsourced from co-design partners through our development process.
The Original question column shows the question as the HSH AEA team recorded it, based on interpreting notes, conversations, and written reports.
Under Reflected in following question(s) on shortlist you can see what evaluations on the shortlist of upcoming evaluations the question made it onto, if any.
The longlist is ordered by the date at which the question was authored – you can compare this to the date at which the HSH AEA team recorded the question in the longlist.
The Question source reflects whether the question came from a focus group, a community workshop, a survey, an existing document, or governance partner recommendations.
The Co-design partner column tells us the type of partner that authored the question. Note: we are not always able to say exactly what the identity of the person is. For example, for community workshops representing a mix of providers and people with lived experience, we sometimes have to base our longlist questions off the notes that were taken, which do not identify who spoke. In such cases, we just list the full set of types of co-design partners present.
The Question wording on preference survey and % times selected in preference survey columns show how we consolidated this question into a shorter list for inclusion on the preference survey and how popular it was among those who responded.
The Logic Model Strategy and Logic Model Stage columns report the part of the logic model that the question corresponds to.
Example of how to use the longlist: All of the columns are searchable using the seach boxes at the top. So, for example, if you want to see all of the questions on reducing administrative burden that were authored by people with lived experience of homelessness, you can type “lived experience” under the Co-design partner column and “administrative burden” under Logic Model Strategy.
Change Log
All notable changes to the Annual Evaluation Agenda (AEA) will be documented in this part of the agenda.
The versioning format is: vYYYY.MAJOR.MINOR
- vYYYY version: year to which the version pertains
- MAJOR version: large changes to content or direction
- MINOR version: smaller edits or updates
[v2026.1.1] - 2026-03-25
This version incorporates feedback received on v2026.1.0 from governance partners, academic and research partners, and equity-focused stakeholder groups. It also includes a set of edits initiated internally to improve clarity and equity framing. The changes below are grouped by theme.
Changed
Evaluation priorities
- Priority 1 (Systemwide impact):
- In response to HSH executive needs for more timely gap analysis, clarified the two-track implementation structure: gap analysis conducted internally for timeliness; impact analysis procured externally via RFP for independence.
- In response to feedback from Homeless Policy Deputies, added explicit mention of surge capacity for emergency and large-scale displacement events.
- In response to feedback from Homeless Policy Deputies, ARDI, and HPRI, added named racial and ethnic groups (Black, AIAN, Latinx residents) to the evaluation question alongside people with mental health and substance use disorders.
- Priority 2 (Racial disparities in housing stability):
- In response to feedback from ARDI, HPRI, and Homeless Policy deputies on the need to foreground racial equity, moved this evaluation up to second priority (swapping with coordinations evaluation), and renamed from “Improving permanent housing retention and graduation”. Evaluation question rewritten to center disparities for Black and AIAN tenants as the primary object of study.
- In response to feedback from CIO and CPL, distinguished more strongly from Priority 7 (returns to homelessness) to clarify how the two evaluations are distinct.
- Priority 3 (Referral pathways):
- Equity dimension of question made more explicit, naming Black residents and people with behavioral health needs as the populations facing the greatest referral barriers.
- Priority 7 (Returns to homelessness):
- Updated title and added reference to Priority 2 to clarify scope: this evaluation covers post-exit trajectories, not the period of active housing tenure.
- Priority 4 (Testing innovation budget pilots):
- Renamed and refocused from a multi-program coordination and connection evaluation to a formative evaluation. A rigorous causal evaluation is recommended as a future phase. This is in response to better understanding the needs and development stage of these pilots.
Evaluation principles
- Added a new bullet under Principle 2 (Center equity and cultural responsiveness) establishing explicit expectations around priority populations. This is in response to feedback from ARDI, HPRI, and Homeless Policy deputies.
Sources
Changes in this version draw on:
- Feedback from governance partner meetings (Homelessness Policy Deputies on 1/22/26 and ECRA on 2/13/26)
- Feedback from academic and research partners (ARDI on 1/20/26 and HPRI on 3/4/26)
- Written feedback from academic reviewers on the v2026.1.0 draft (CIO and CPL)
- Internal review and equity-focused revision priorities identified by the HSH team
[v2026.1.0] - 2026-03-20
This is the first major release of the Annual Evaluation Agenda. This version contains the initial version of the AEA as developed through the community engagement process. It has been presented to ECRHA, Homelessness Policy Deputies, and other stakeholders, but does not yet include rounds of feedback received on the first draft. These will be incorporated in an upcoming version.
Added
- Added the AEA shortlist of questions, in order of priority
- Evaluation principles
- Executive summary
- Description of process used to develop agenda
- Appendix: Longlist of evaluations, glossary of terms
[v2025.0.3] - 2025-12-01
This version update is mainly aimed at setting up infrastructure for the AEA so that it compiles as both an HTML and word, and features searchable tables.
Added
- Added ability to compile AEA as HTML or as DOCX
- Added
reactableinteractive table to appendix to enable easy searching of longlist when it is uploaded - Tested adding images
- Tested adding questions (but ultimately removed them)
[v2025.0.2] - 2025-08-26
Added
- Created repo architecture:
- Pull request template
- CHANGELOG
- Guide for updating AEA (
_make_AEA)
- Created structure and placeholder content for AEA itself