Individuals Housed (PI2640)

This metric is intended to capture a projection of individuals housed based on assumptions, which should be footnoted; organizations that can collect direct counts of tenants or residents should instead use Client Individuals: Total (PI4060).

Organizations are encouraged to estimate the number of target stakeholders in their annual or impact reports. For example, the City of New York included the numbers of potential buyers or users of affordable housing in their "Five-Borough, Ten-Year Plan."

This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact: it may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.