HUD reporting

Submission season without the fire drill.

COMPASS keeps HUD fields as part of ordinary casework, exports the HMIS CSV set your HMIS Lead ingests, and tells you what is missing before it leaves.

01 · Getting in

Your history comes with you.

Bulk import from an HMIS CSV export. Clients, enrollments, exits, income and benefits, disabilities, health and domestic violence.

This is the part most evaluations never get past, and it is the part that already works. Harbor Hope Center moved their full client history into COMPASS this way.

02 · What your HMIS Lead receives

Built to the FY2026 specification.

Generated server side, against the specification that took effect in October 2025. Client records, enrollments, exits, income and benefits, disabilities, health and domestic violence, and the project descriptor files that describe your programs.

Why the year matters FY2026 retired the Gender element and added Sex, among other changes. A file set carrying the previous year's columns has the right names and the wrong contents, and your HMIS Lead finds that out rather than you.

Ask any vendor this Not whether they export HMIS CSV. Which specification year, and when they moved to it. The filenames barely changed between versions. The columns did.

Pending before this ships The file list goes here as a checkable grid, the way an evaluator would want to see it. Specification year is confirmed. The count is not, so no number appears on this page until an export has been run and the archive counted.

A distinction worth making

This is not your APR.

Two different files get confused constantly, including by vendors. The HMIS CSV export is your data: clients, enrollments, exits. The APR CSV is a different artifact built around the report's own question numbering, and it carries aggregate answers rather than records.

COMPASS produces the first one. Your APR is generated from HMIS data and uploaded to Sage, and COMPASS does not produce that upload today. Anyone telling you their case management tool files your APR is worth a second question.

Where each one goes

HMIS CSV export

From COMPASS to your HMIS Lead, who ingests it into the Continuum's system of record.

APR CSV

Generated from HMIS data for one grant operating period, uploaded to Sage, validated there. Not produced by COMPASS.

Our guide to running a CoC APR

03 · Before you send

It checks first.

COMPASS runs the data before it builds the archive and names the specific FY2026 required fields that are missing, client by client.

You fix them in COMPASS and export again. Nobody on your team finds out from a rejection notice three weeks later.

What COMPASS does not do.

You have been pitched by vendors before. Here is the part they leave for the third call.

It is not an HMIS. COMPASS does not replace your Continuum’s system of record. It produces the export your HMIS Lead ingests.

There is no live sync. No two way connection to Clarity or any other HMIS. The path is the CSV export, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a gap.

There is no certification. Not for us and not for anyone. HUD does not endorse HMIS software. What exists is the file specification, and we match it.

The reporting side of the job, explained.

Guide How to run a CoC APR Where each number comes from, and the fields that most often send one back. Guide What changed in the FY2026 data standards The changes that touch a small organization, and the ones you can ignore. Reference HMIS exit destination categories Four categories, and the single row where most agencies get it wrong.

Your data manager will have sharper questions than this page answers.

Send them over. Brandon answers these himself, and the specific ones get specific answers rather than a brochure.

hello@illumipath.io

Where to go next

What it costs Five bands by staff size, every number on the page, and the free floor spelled out. How client data is handled Capability based access, 42 CFR Part 2 separation, versioned records, and a plain list of what we do not claim. The reporting guides How to run a CoC APR, what changed in the FY2026 standards, and the system performance measures, written for practitioners.

Or skip ahead and ask a person. hello@illumipath.io