About the Community Homelessness Report

Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy  is a federal program that provides funding directly to communities to help them address local homelessness priorities using a more systems-based and data-driven approach.

The Community Homelessness Report (CHR) is an annual Reaching Home reporting deliverable that helps communities to self-assess their progress with program implementation.

Who completes a CHR?

CHRs are completed by communities funded under the Designated Communities (DC) stream and the three territorial capitals funded under the Territorial Homelessness (TH) stream.

CHRs are not a requirement related to the Indigenous Homelessness (IH) or Rural and Remote Homelessness (RRH) funding streams. In Quebec, the Centres intégrés (universitaires) de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS/CIUSSS) funded under the DC stream publish annual reports on their website about the implementation of Coordinated Access and the Outcomes-Based Approach, per the terms of the Canada-Quebec Agreement regarding Reaching Home 2019-2024.

Reporting tools

A number of essential and optional tools are available to support communities with completing the 2024-25 CHR reporting cycle.

Essential tools ‣ 2024-25 CHR reporting template: Used to submit the CHR to the federal government.  ‣ 2024-25 CHR Reference Guide:  Provides instructions on how to complete, submit and reflect on the CHR. ‣ CAB Sign-Off Sheet: Can be used to record CAB sign-off when submitting the CHR to the federal government.

Optional reference tools ‣ Questions and Answers: Answers to common CHR questions. ‣ Outcome Reporting under Reaching Home: Baselines, Targets and Tracking Progress at the Community Level tipsheet: Explains the purpose of baselines, setting targets and tracking progress through outcome reporting. ‣ Examples of Clear and Complete Responses: Provides examples of responses to some of the narrative questions. ‣ 2024-25 CHR Questions

Optional workbook and worksheets ‣ Checklist – Completing the CHR: Checklist of activities throughout the CHR lifecycle that can be used to help prepare for, complete and submit the CHR, as well as ideas for using results throughout the year. ‣ Workbook – CHR questions: Fillable Word version of the template that can be used to draft the CHR. ‣ Worksheet – Reflecting on the Changing Response to Homelessness: Helps with answering question CHR 2. ‣ Worksheet – Indigenous Partners in Your Community: Helps with answering questions CHR 3 to CHR 6.