Housing First HMIS+ Management Platform
Kansas City is facing a mounting housing emergency. Thousands of individuals and families are experiencing homelessness or housing instability — and the systems meant to help them are fragmented, paper-heavy, and built for a different era.
dWell-KC is the flagship deployment of the dWell-one platform — built alongside housing agencies, case workers, and outreach teams in the Kansas City metro. It replaces fragmented spreadsheets and siloed tools with a unified, real-time platform for case management, field visits, HMIS intake, and housing placement tracking.
dWell is Housing First — but Wellness Focused. One platform, built to carry the work from first contact to stable housing — and everything a team needs to manage in between.
Track field contacts, engagement history, and follow-up in real time.
Manage beds, intakes, and capacity across every shelter site.
Oversee units, vouchers, inspections, and lease-up from one system.
Coordinate care plans, notes, and outcomes across every case worker.
Connect residents, partner agencies, and support networks in one place.
dWell-one is the Operating System for Housing Organizations.
Most platforms abandon the client at some point along the way, leaving a massive gap in the pathway to a thriving, stable life.
Every step along the way — one continuous record instead of a handoff between disconnected systems, so no one falls through the cracks between outreach and a stable home.
First contact through outreach
Intake, beds, and stabilization
Placement, vouchers, and lease-up
Ongoing case support and wellness
Today, a housing organization often has software that looks like this:
Each solves one problem.
None runs the organization.
Every employee spends part of their day moving information from one system to another.
One platform for all your housing organization's needs.
Before a unified platform, most housing organizations are stitching together seven, eight, sometimes nine separate vendors just to run day-to-day operations — HMIS, property management, CRM, case management, intake forms, messaging, e-signatures, automation, and reporting. Each tool solves one problem. None of them talk to each other.
| Software Category | Example Vendor | Small Org | Medium Org | Large / Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMIS | Bitfocus Clarity | $15,000–40,000 | $40,000–100,000 | $100,000–500,000+ |
| Property Management | AppFolio | $3,000–8,000 | $8,000–30,000 | $30,000–150,000+ |
| CRM | Salesforce | $3,000–15,000 | $15,000–75,000 | $75,000–500,000+ |
| Case Management | Bonterra | $5,000–20,000 | $20,000–60,000 | $60,000–250,000+ |
| Forms & Intake | Jotform Enterprise | $500–3,000 | $3,000–10,000 | $10,000–50,000+ |
| Messaging & Collaboration | Slack | $2,000–10,000 | $10,000–40,000 | $40,000–250,000+ |
| Document Signing | DocuSign | $1,000–5,000 | $5,000–20,000 | $20,000–100,000+ |
| Workflow Automation | Zapier / Make | $500–5,000 | $5,000–20,000 | $20,000–75,000+ |
| Business Intelligence | Power BI / Tableau | $1,000–8,000 | $8,000–30,000 | $30,000–150,000+ |
Every Continuum of Care in the country is required to run an HMIS. That's a quarter of a billion dollars a year in federal money already committed to this work — funding software and planning that hasn't kept pace with what teams on the ground actually need. dWell-one is built to be the platform that spend deserves.