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all Chicago was launched to help end homelessness in the City of Chicago. all Chicago approached Property Inspect to solve their problem of inspecting properties at scale during the pandemic for their rapid rehousing program, and realized that our software could reduce property onboarding times and streamline the certification process by at least 50%. What started as a goal of on-boarding 500-600 properties is now at 2500+ properties on-boarded since July 2020, helping people experiencing homelessness into long term housing.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded millions in Continuum of Care (CoC) grants to more than 1,200 local homeless housing and service programs across the United States and Puerto Rico. CoC grants in its initiative to end homelessness in the United States.
Part of the HUD funding process includes standardized inspections of the property, but even before this is organized; municipalities need the correct documentation in place to be able to allocate funding. Once a property was identified, it had been taking as much as 90 days to move a property through the manual systems. With hand-written notes and individual pictures to take and store; this was a very protracted process.
Municipalities face a problem of being able to certify properties at scale for their rapid rehousing program. all Chicago’s processing of homeless applications was labour intensive taking up to 90 days to process a property. Time is precious when people are faced with living on the streets or in Shelters. So re-evaluating the process was critical to rehouse the vulnerable in a faster, more efficient way.
Live Inspections allows a unit or property to be inspected remotely and live via our app from any location. By allowing units/housing to be inspected remotely this reduces both the costs and time frame for onboarding properties.
Structured time stamped property reports containing conditions, imagery and video providing accountability that the properties are safe, compliant and fit for habitation. This negates properties that are not fit for purpose and provides actionable information to improve the quality of properties within the process.
Property Inspect solves many of the current problems facing cities by streamlining the Rapid Re-Housing process at scale. Reducing the time and administration in completing inspections and reports, reporting problems faster, reducing staff training, automating notifications, auditing and compliance. Working with all Chicago improving the documentation of property conditions, has helped us to build templates designed around the HUD process in a compliant and effective way.