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2. Increase housing opportunities for homeless and extremely low-income households. 15,000 additional supportive housing units will provide affordable housing and services to extremely low-income persons and families. 3. Deliver flexible services to support stability and independence. Culturally competent, accessible, and coordinated support services must accompany housing. Such services will help people increase their independence, improve their quality of life, and retain their housing even through crises. Over time, these services create a significant reduction in the use of costly emergency medical and social services. 4. Measure success and report outcomes. Evaluating outcomes will ensure accountability to the broader community and allow participating agencies and government entities to measure success and target resources toward best practices. S. Develop long-term leadership and build political will. Success will be achieved by establishing a leadership structure and community engagement to support creative solutions to homelessness and sustain systems change activities. Progress on last year's objectives and work that will continue into FY09-10 • In addition to Oakland and Berkeley, the Cities of San Leandro and Fremont have developed local implementation strategies. Pleasanton, Dublin, and Livermore are collaborating in a Tri-Valley implementation strategy. • Secured 381 additional housing vouchers or operating subsidies. • 131 new units under development. • Placed 950 households into permanent housing. • Developed measuring tools for tracking the length of time persons spend homeless within the system and will work on decreasing that time by 15% in the coming fiscal year. • Completed research on previous prevention efforts in Alameda County and best practices will recommend a pilot prevention program to be launched in FY09. • Efforts to implement the strategy to convert 1,200 General Assistance recipients to Supplemental Social Security Income are on-going and still in the design phase. • Work continues with the City of Oakland to convert one or more Oakland hotels into permanent supportive housing. • The evolution of the Emergency Care system has taken the shape of developing common outcomes for local funding streams within various county and city agencies. The fenders and providers are collaborating on developing contract level outcomes that support emergency shelter and service providers to evolve into housing first organizations -solving homelessness rather than managing it. • The supportive housing database is designed and data input will begin next month. The database should be ready to go live early in FY09. For more detailed information please refer to the Alameda County Everyone Home Plan at www. everyonehom e. org. Final Action Plan - FY2009-10 City of San Leandro Page 73