Conplan Improvement Initiative Library

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There are three primary areas that will help to drive the discussion with respect to improving the concept of the Consolidated Plan: Planning, Reporting and Outcomes/Performance Measures.

Planning

HOME and Neighborhoods: A Guide to Comprehensive Revitalization Techniques
Model Program Guide HUD-2003-20-CPD, April 2004
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Using Your HOME Dollars for Rental Production: A Planning Paper for Local Policy Makers
This paper provides a decision-making framework for housing planners and program administrators that receive allocations of federal dollars each year under the HOME Investment Partnership Program to best meet the housing needs of people in their communities.
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Targeting Housing Production Subsidies
This report examines the current literature on rental housing markets to address the questions on the most effective use of government subsidies for the production of rental housing.
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Burlington, VT Consolidated Plan for Housing & Community Development
Burlington's Consolidated Plan uses tables and charts to expand HUD priority housing need tables to include goals for new, rehabilitated, and homebuyer assisted units, and contains cross-references that link with Consolidated Plan and PHA Plan. The 2006 Action Plan identifies a series of outcome indicators and output measures that it will use to measure success.
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Minnesota Milestones

Neighborhood Quality Of Life Study
Evaluates Charlotte's neighborhoods based on social, crime, economic and physical conditions and converts the individual statistical scores into three neighborhood-ranking categories ... "stable," "threatened," and "fragile" for each Neighborhood Statistical Area.
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Millennial Housing Commission
Research papers prepared for the Commission dealing with housing policy, integrated planning, and development.
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Miscellaneous Plans

Reporting

Boston Indicators
This report tracks progress in civic health, cultural life and the arts, the economy, education, the environment, housing, public health, public safety, technology and transportation.
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City of Hartford Office of Grants Management
Demonstrates use of CPMP for Consolidated Plan and Action Plan. Also includes CAPER reports with accomplishments for CDBG, HOME, ESG, HOPWA.
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Outcomes/Performance Measures

Promising Practices in Performance Measurement
This report documents promising local practices in performance measurement, and it documents the crosscutting lessons drawn from these case studies that may be useful to other localities in implementing performance measurement systems.
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MCDDA Performance Measures Proposal
The Michigan Community Development Directors Association (MCDDA) has developed a performance measurement proposal, "Performance Measures: Shifting the Focus, A Proposal on Performance Measures, Outcomes, and Indicators" that Michigan entitlement communities can use as a model to evaluate different program outcomes.
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National Academy of Public Administration
Center for Improving Government Performance
The GPRA Knowledge Center contains selected outcome measures and performance measurement links.
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ICMA Performance Measurement Consortium
Provides a means for local governments to share data on a range of programs, benchmark their performance to comparable jurisdictions, and improve service delivery.
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United Way - Resource Network on Outcome Measurement
Provides information and resources to organizations interested in learning more about outcome measurement.
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Los Angeles City Matrix of Accomplishments
Los Angeles city example of how well project activities address priorities and strategy identified in the consolidated plan and proposed goals.
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Madison displays results
Madison, WI provides an example of how to track results and long-term goals:

Portland, OR Action Plan
This action plan provides a good example of implementing the new outcome performance Measurement System and demonstrates the use of the Consolidated Plan Management Process Tool HOPWA Table.
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Pierce County, WA Outcomes Catalogue
This catalogue provides a menu of program outcomes and indicators in an effort to create a standard format for outcome selection and to assist you in determining outcomes best suited for your program.
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Vital Sign Community Indicators
The Community Indicators Program, called "Vital Signs," was developed as a tool to help citizens and governments better understand their community, set priorities and goals, develop action plans, and track progress toward their visions.
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ROMA SuperNOFA Logic Model
The following ROMA training materials for HUD's SuperNOFA discuss how outputs and outcomes can be linked in a logic model to measure results.
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ROMA Terms and Definitions
This provides a definition of some common terms, such as outputs, outcomes, impact, etc. used by the United Way, OMB, and the Community Services Block Grant program.
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Performance Measurement Systems
The Government Performance Project administered by the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University scored performance management practices of 50 States, 35 major cities, and 40 counties in a variety of areas including Managing for Results.
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National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Project
Contains a description of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership—a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners to further the development and use of neighborhood information systems in local policymaking and community building.
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Population Growth and Decline in City Neighborhoods
This report finds that the population of neighborhoods in the central cities of our 100 largest metropolitan areas grew more in the 1990s than in the 1980s. Growth was generally more rapid in the sunbelt than the rustbelt, but neighborhoods in metropolitan areas with large Hispanic and Asian populations generally grew rapidly even in the Northeast and Midwest. In almost all areas, city neighborhoods with predominantly black populations and with high poverty rates were most likely to decline.
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Mapping Concentrated Poverty
This Brookings study reveals that the number of people living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty dropped significantly between 1990 and 2000 after decades of increase. Within metropolitan areas, concentrated poverty in inner city neighborhoods declined substantially, but some older suburbs experienced increases.
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Success Measures Guidebook
Contains a series of housing and community development outcome indicators that can be used to address the changes desired for neighborhoods.
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Fairfax County, VA
Contains manuals on basic and advanced performance management, data collection, and surveys of customer satisfaction.
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State of Virginia
Describes Virginia's performance management system and includes indicators for community, housing, economy, education, and the environment.
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