Coordinated Entry System: study

The study is intended to identify delays, access barriers, duplicative requirements, and ways to improve housing placements statewide.

What the law does ​

• Requires the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to complete a statewide coordinated-entry study by July 1, 2028.
• Examines system operations, capacity, governance, access, referral practices, housing placement outcomes, and delays.
• Identifies requirements and documentation that delay or prevent placements, including who imposes them and whether information is collected more than once.
• Reviews connections between coordinated entry, homelessness data systems, and housing, health, behavioral-health, and benefits programs.
• Identifies ways state agencies may align requirements, reduce duplicate documentation, clarify compliance, and provide technical assistance without changing local control or federally required functions.
• Requires a public report and submission to the Legislature and relevant policy committees by July 1, 2028.

Who it affects ​

• Individuals and families experiencing homelessness, including rural and tribal residents, people with disabilities, families, youth, older adults, and domestic-violence survivors.
• Local coordinated-entry systems, continuums of care, counties, cities, public housing authorities, and homelessness service providers.
• Affordable and supportive housing providers, developers, owners, operators, and property managers.
• State and local housing, health, behavioral-health, and benefits-program entities.