HEAT, a housing triage tool that refuses the black box

Field notes

The published sample runs a fictional person through the same questions and engines described for a real assessment. Its outputs include immediate-action routing, a computed HUD chronic-homelessness determination, a four-band support-planning level, and interventions to discuss. The site says missing or declined answers are reported as missing rather than counted against someone, while documentation requirements are listed with their counting rules. Version 0.27.0-pilot is identified, and the project labels itself a public beta rather than a production decision system.