CoC System Performance Analysis
KS-507 — Kansas Balance of State CoC
Reporting period: October 1, 2025 – July 20, 2026 (FY2026 year-to-date)
KS-507 — Kansas Balance of State CoC
Reporting period: October 1, 2025 – July 20, 2026 (FY2026 year-to-date)Source: HUD System Performance Measures (HUDX-223) raw data exports for KS-507, shown across three periods for a two-year trend view: FY2024 (October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2024, complete year), FY2025 (October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2025, complete year), and FY2026 year-to-date (October 1, 2025 – July 20, 2026, approximately 9.6 of 12 months). Because the current period is partial-year, rate, percentage, and median-based measures below are directly comparable across all three years, but raw count measures are flagged separately since a shorter current window will naturally show lower totals regardless of real change.
What changed: Median days homeless for this population has climbed each year on record: 33 days (FY2024), 38 days (FY2025), and 49 days so far in FY2026. The average moved the same direction (61.0 → 76.8 → 80.5 days).
Why it matters: People are staying homeless longer before being housed, the opposite of the system's core goal, and the trend has held for three consecutive years rather than being a one-year blip.
What changed: When permanent housing stays are included, median length of time homeless has also climbed every year: 103 days (FY2024), 122 days (FY2025), 134 days so far in FY2026. The average moved similarly (318.7 → 376.0 → 381.0 days).
Why it matters: This broader measure has moved the same direction as the narrower one for three straight years, so the slowdown is not isolated to one project type or one year.
What changed: The share of adults leaving projects with higher total income than at entry fell sharply from 25.86% (FY2024) to 9.95% (FY2025), then partly recovered to 15.77% in FY2026 year-to-date. It remains well below the FY2024 level.
Why it matters: Even with the partial recovery, leavers are exiting with improved income at roughly 60% of the FY2024 rate, worth investigating alongside case management and employment services capacity.
What changed: Among persons in permanent housing projects other than rapid re-housing, the rate of remaining housed or exiting to a permanent destination has declined every year on record: 93.50% (FY2024), 91.63% (FY2025), 90.66% (FY2026 YTD).
Why it matters: Still the strongest-performing measure on this dashboard, but a three-year decline is a clearer signal than a single-year dip, worth watching since this has historically been KS-507's most reliable measure.
What changed: The overall return rate rose from 11.46% (FY2024) to 13.20% (FY2025), then improved to 10.82% in FY2026 year-to-date, the best of the three years. The mix shifted underneath that total: the Street Outreach rate has been volatile on a small base (14.93% → 12.50% → 29.41%), while Emergency Shelter (22.69% → 21.44% → 18.36%) and Permanent Housing (7.01% → 7.38% → 3.78%) show a clearer downward trend.
Why it matters: The current year is the strongest of the three and well ahead of the national average, but the FY2025 uptick shows this measure isn't moving in a straight line, and the rising Street Outreach return rate is worth a closer look even though its volume is small.
What changed: The share of street outreach exits landing in a positive destination (temporary/institutional improvement or permanent housing) has climbed every year: 16.36% (FY2024), 43.86% (FY2025), 48.88% (FY2026 YTD).
Why it matters: A sustained, three-year strengthening of the outreach-to-housing pipeline, the largest and most consistent improvement on this dashboard.
What changed: The successful exit rate rose from 44.80% (FY2024) to a peak of 50.81% (FY2025), then eased back to 46.51% in FY2026 year-to-date, still above the FY2024 level.
Why it matters: A genuine two-year net improvement, though the pullback from FY2025's peak is worth watching to see if it stabilizes or continues declining.
What changed: Of everyone entering ES, SH, TH, or PH, the share with no prior homeless history in the last 24 months has declined every year: 82.46% (FY2024), 77.43% (FY2025), 74.43% (FY2026 YTD).
Why it matters: A consistent, three-year shift toward a caseload with more repeat homelessness history and proportionally fewer brand-new entries, favorable relative to HUD's goal of reducing first-time homelessness.
What this measures: Destination is the field showing where a client is expected to stay immediately after leaving a project. HUD treats "no exit interview completed," blank, and other unusable entries all as missing destination data. This is not the percentage of clients who exited to homelessness or another unsuccessful destination — it means there isn't enough information recorded to determine the client's housing situation after exit at all.
What changed: This rate improved substantially in FY2025 (39.92% → 27.41%) before rising back to nearly its FY2024 level in FY2026 year-to-date (39.47%). Shown as a share of leavers, since raw counts are affected by the partial-year window for the current year.
Why it matters: Measure 7 calculates successful housing outcomes by dividing clients with successful destinations by the total number of applicable system leavers. A client with missing destination data still counts as an exit but cannot be counted as a successful placement, which can make the CoC's performance appear lower than it may actually be. HUD's expected standard is at least 95% complete destination data; KS-507 has fallen well short of that standard in all three years, and the FY2025 improvement did not hold into FY2026.
What changed: The unduplicated sheltered count held essentially flat across the two complete years on file, 1,743 (FY2024) and 1,750 (FY2025), essentially no change. FY2026 year-to-date stands at 1,619 through roughly 9.6 months.
Why it matters: The flat FY2024-to-FY2025 comparison suggests the sheltered population size itself has been stable; the FY2026 figure isn't safely comparable until the full year closes on September 30, 2026.
Looking at KS-507's performance across three periods, FY2024 (October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2024), FY2025 (October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2025), and FY2026 year-to-date (October 1, 2025 – July 20, 2026), gives a fuller picture than any single year-over-year comparison, and it shows some trends are steady while others reversed direction mid-stream.
The clearest and most consistent area of concern is length of time homeless, which has risen every year on record on both the narrower measure (33 → 38 → 49 median days) and the broader measure that includes permanent housing (103 → 122 → 134 median days). Permanent housing retention has also declined for three consecutive years (93.50% → 91.63% → 90.66%), still the strongest measure on this dashboard but trending the wrong way each year rather than dipping once. Adult leaver income tells a less linear story: it fell sharply in FY2025 (25.86% → 9.95%) before partly recovering in FY2026 (15.77%), still well below its FY2024 level.
Placement outcomes are the clearest bright spot, and the three-year view makes them look more durable, not less. Successful placement from street outreach has climbed every year (16.36% → 43.86% → 48.88%), and successful exits to permanent housing from ES/SH/TH/PH-RRH improved for two years before a slight pullback in FY2026 (44.80% → 50.81% → 46.51%). The share of entries that are first-time homeless has declined every year (82.46% → 77.43% → 74.43%), a favorable and consistent shift. Returns to homelessness moved up in FY2025 before improving again in FY2026 (11.46% → 13.20% → 10.82%), landing at its best level of the three years and comfortably below HUD's most recent published national average of 17.4%.
Destination data quality for ES/SH leavers is the measure where the three-year view changes the story the most: it improved substantially in FY2025 (39.92% → 27.41%) before rising back to nearly its FY2024 level in FY2026 (39.47%), suggesting whatever drove the FY2025 improvement did not hold. HUD's expected standard is at least 95% complete destination data, no more than a 5% error rate; KS-507 has fallen well short of that standard in all three years shown. Because an exit with a missing or invalid destination can't be counted as successful, this remains a first-order interpretation issue for the placement measures above in every year shown.
One measure, unduplicated sheltered persons, is flat and genuinely comparable across the two complete years (1,743 in FY2024, 1,750 in FY2025), suggesting a stable sheltered population size. The FY2026 year-to-date figure (1,619) isn't yet comparable to either, since it covers roughly 9.6 of 12 months, and should be revisited once the full year closes on September 30, 2026.