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IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO RESOLUTION NO. 2006- RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE ALAMEDA COUNTYWIDE HOMELESS AND SPECIAL NEEDS HOUSING PLAN, EVERYONE HOME PLAN NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Leandro does RESOLVE as follows: WHEREAS, the lack of affordable housing in Alameda County and San Leandro affects the housing opportunities available to the homeless and special needs households; and WHEREAS, a significant number of people leaving institutions including foster care, hospitals, jails and prisons, exit into homelessness; and WHEREAS, the most effective way to end homelessness is to prevent it in the first place; and WHEREAS, supportive services must accompany housing to help formerly homeless tenants be successful in housing; and WHEREAS, the Alameda Countywide Homeless and Special Needs Housing Plan, or EveryOne Home Plan, addresses the need to update local homeless continuum of care plans adopted in the late 1990s by the County, and the City of San Leandro; and WHEREAS, Agencies sponsoring the EveryOne Home Plan identify a need for a coordinated regional response to the federal government's initiative to end chronic homelessness in 10 years; and WHEREAS, the central purpose of the Plan is to increase Alameda County's capacity for producing and administering supportive housing for the long term, and to reduce and end homelessness among the vulnerable target populations ofthe Plan; and WHEREAS, the Plan's recommendations address homelessness prevention, affordable housing production, regional coordination, flexible services, measurement of success, the need for leadership, and establishes a new leadership process for implementing the Plan; and WHEREAS, Council endorsement of the Plan will likely make San Leandro and Alameda County more competitive for public and private funds that look favorably upon applications from jurisdictions that have endorsed a Plan. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of San Leandro to adopt the EveryOne Home Plan. Introduced by Councilmember , 2006 by the following called vote: and passed and adopted this day of Members of the Council: