How to record an exit

Recording an exit closes an enrollment and stamps a HUD destination code. This affects every federal performance measure your CoC reports on — successful exits to permanent housing, returns to homelessness, length of stay, days-to-housing.

Take your time on this step. The destination code drives the math on every annual report.

The most-common destinations:
• 3 — Permanent Supportive Housing (the gold standard)
• 19 — Rental with VASH subsidy
• 28 — Rental with RRH subsidy
• 29 — Rental with Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8)
• 30 — Rental with public housing subsidy
• 21 — Owned by client with subsidy
• 10 — Rental by client, no subsidy
• 11 / 22 — Staying or living with family, permanent

Categorized in the report as 'permanent exits to permanent housing'. These are the ones that move the SysPM needle.

Temporary destinations (count differently):
• 1 — Emergency shelter (returned)
• 2 — Transitional Housing
• 12 / 14 — Staying with friends / family, temporary
• 16 — Place not meant for habitation (literally homeless again)

Institutional / unknown destinations:
• 4 — Psychiatric hospital
• 5 — Substance abuse treatment
• 7 — Jail or prison
• 24 — Deceased
• 8 / 9 — Client doesn't know / refused
• 99 — No exit interview conducted

How to record:
Open the person, find the active enrollment, click "Record exit". Pick the exit date + destination code. Save. The federal report aggregators pick it up at the next nightly run.

For Wally: ask "record exit for [person] to permanent housing" — the action card prefills destination 3 + today's date.