Continuum of Care Leadership

This collection of articles is designed for Continuum of Care leaders who guide system strategy, policy alignment, and the coordination of housing resources across their communities. Explore best practices in system design, centralizing rental assistance administration, data-driven decision making, and strengthening landlord engagement at scale. These insights support CoC leadership teams in improving housing outcomes, enhancing compliance, and building more efficient, equitable systems of care.

Empowering Client Choice with Padmission Connect

Empowering Client Choice with Padmission Connect

In communities across the country, Padmission Connect is helping housing programs put choice back into the hands of the people they serve. With interactive housing search tools, participants and their case managers can work together—within one secure system—to identify housing that truly fits a participant’s needs, supports, and daily life.

This isn’t simply about locating an available unit. It is about helping people find the right home in the right […]

By Daniel Davis|2026-03-16T17:08:00-07:00November 24th, 2025|Housing Search & Navigation|Comments Off

Unlocked: How Partnership Home Uses Padmission Connect to Strengthen Landlord Engagement

Unlocked: How Partnership Home Uses Padmission Connect to Strengthen Landlord Engagement

In most communities, landlord engagement starts and ends with whoever picked up the phone last. Housing navigators build small, personal networks. Staff turnover erases those relationships. And when a new client needs housing, the search starts from scratch. Partnership Home — the collaborative applicant, HMIS lead, and coordinated entry lead for the TX-601 Continuum of Care in Tarrant County, Texas — recognized this as a system design problem. Their answer […]

By Daniel Davis|2026-05-06T17:41:11-07:00October 16th, 2025|Housing Search & Navigation, Landlord Engagement & Partnerships|Comments Off

We’re Growing Our Team To Help Connect Customers Implement Landlord Engagement

We’re Growing Our Team To Help Connect Customers Implement Landlord Engagement

We’re excited to share some big news: Daniel Davis has joined Padmission as our first-ever Director of Product and Customer Experience!

This is a brand-new role at Padmission, created to strengthen how we support our partners, listen to feedback, and continually improve the Padmission Connect platform. Daniel’s experience in landlord engagement and housing programs makes him uniquely positioned to bridge the gap between technology […]

By Mike Shore|2026-02-18T16:01:37-07:00August 1st, 2025|Product Updates & New Features|Comments Off

Introducing Journey, the industry’s first homeless housing program administration platform

Introducing Journey, the industry’s first homeless housing program administration platform

Washington, DC, (July 8, 2024) – Padmission, the leading innovator in landlord engagement and housing search assistance software for homeless services systems, announces the availability of Journey, the industry’s first homeless housing program administration platform. Journey provides homeless services organizations with end-to-end housing program administration and the analytics to improve housing program performance and outcomes.

With over three decades of expertise managing housing programs within one of the largest U.S. homeless housing program […]

By Mike Shore|2026-01-13T16:23:35-07:00July 4th, 2024|Data, Reporting & Technology in Homeless Services, Policy, Compliance & HUD Alignment, Product Updates & New Features, Rental Assistance Administration & System Design|Comments Off

Property Engagement in the 2022 Special NOFO

Property Engagement in the 2022 Special NOFO

As your community is preparing your submission for the HUD CoC Program Special NOFO to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness, it is important to note that effective Landlord Engagement is essential to providing housing opportunities for our most vulnerable community members.

We all know that housing is the solution to homelessness. Taking this one step further, this means that landlords and property managers have the solution to homelessness. […]

By Kevin McKee|2025-12-16T10:50:33-07:00September 14th, 2022|Landlord Engagement & Partnerships, Policy, Compliance & HUD Alignment|Comments Off

New Map Search for Desktop and Mobile

New Map Search for Desktop and Mobile

Location, location, location. Spatial visibility is a core requirement of effective and coordinated housing search. Understanding where units are located, how they relate to services and social supports, and which are actively available supports informed housing decisions and enables client choice.

In many systems, location data exists but is disconnected from housing workflows, limiting its usefulness for navigation and coordination.

Padmission Connect integrates map-based housing […]

By Kevin McKee|2026-02-06T09:36:27-07:00April 6th, 2022|Product Updates & New Features|Comments Off

Manage Units, Inspections, Reservations and Signing Bonuses

Manage Units, Inspections, Reservations and Signing Bonuses

Housing search through strong landlord relationships is the core of the Padmission platform, but as promising approaches and practices emerge in the field, we want to give you added flexibility and functionality to enhance your efforts. We’re excited to launch this latest feature that provides new functionality to manage units, inspections, reservations and signing bonuses.

Manage Units

Housing Locators can now add and manage individual units on floor plans for properties in […]

By Mike Shore|2026-01-13T16:22:32-07:00November 1st, 2020|Landlord Engagement & Partnerships, Product Updates & New Features, Rental Assistance Administration & System Design|Comments Off

Landlord Incentives: HOM Survey Results

Landlord Incentives: HOM Survey Results

We’re seeing some amazing work around the country by leaders in homeless services systems around landlord engagement in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Fortunately, HUD Notice CPD-20-08, Waivers and Alternative Requirements for the Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Program Under the CARES Act, provides the field with alternative requirements and flexibilities under the CARES Act, including for landlord incentives. Incentivizing landlords to participate in housing programs, and […]

By Mike Shore|2025-12-16T10:51:22-07:00October 16th, 2020|Housing Search & Navigation, Landlord Engagement & Partnerships|Comments Off

Document Upload and Management

Document Upload and Management

Document upload and management is here! We’re really excited to roll out this latest feature to support your efforts to get people housed faster in your communities. You can now upload and manage documents related to landlord engagement, housing search and the lease-up process in Padmission.

Tenancy applications and landlord screening criteria are two of the most commonly needed documents for housing program participants and case managers as part of their […]

By Kevin McKee|2026-01-13T16:23:11-07:00May 22nd, 2020|Product Updates & New Features, Rental Assistance Administration & System Design|Comments Off

Property Engagement and Housing Search Assistance

Property Engagement and Housing Search Assistance

Editor’s note — March 2026: This post was written in May 2020, shortly after HUD issued guidance encouraging Continuums of Care to develop proactive, affirmative landlord engagement systems at the community level. The concepts introduced here — centralization, shared landlord databases, coordinated housing search — have only grown more relevant in the years since. For a deeper treatment of what centralized landlord engagement looks like in practice today, including how […]

By Mike Shore|2026-04-07T10:36:22-07:00March 8th, 2020|Housing Search & Navigation, Landlord Engagement & Partnerships, Rental Assistance Administration & System Design|Comments Off