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administered jointly with the City of Berkeley. This program began operating in spring 1997, and there are currently 24 households that are housed. McKinney/Vento Homeless Assistance: Shelter Plus Care Alameda County HCD is the grantee for five competitive and renewal grants under HUD's Shelter Plus Care Program, which provides rental subsidies and supportive services on a long- term basis for homeless persons with disabilities. HCD administers the program in cooperation with the Oakland Housing Authority and the Alameda County Housing Authority. The program serves homeless individuals with one or more of three targeted disabilities; serious mental illness, chronic alcohol and drug problems, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or related diseases, who are living on the streets or in other places not fit for human habitation. Shelter Plus Care provides assistance to clients through rental assistance payments and a broad range of supportive services provided by a network of over 50 community-based organizations and County-operated programs. These services include alcohol and drug treatment, mental health services, primary medical care, AIDS services, service coordination and case management, benefits counseling and advocacy, money management services, housing search assistance, and crisis support. HUD makes Shelter Plus Care Program grants for new programs on a competitive basis to local jurisdictions and agencies. HCD continues to administer two grants awarded in FY92: a five- year Sponsor-based Rental Assistance (SRA) grant and aten-year Single Room Occupancy (SRO) grant; this amount to $10 million. The SRA grant subsidizes, through contracts with nonprofit organizations, 66 units located throughout the County. The SRO grant subsidizes 59 SRO units in at the Harrison Apartments in downtown Oakland as well as an additional 32 tenant certificates that were converted from previous SRO units. HCD also administers afive-year Tenant-based Rental Assistance (TRA) grant of $9.8 million to provide assistance to 214 units. Approximately half of the TRA grant, $4.9 million, is being spent to assist Shelter Plus Care participants living in the HOME Consortium. HCD was also awarded a FY96 TRA grant of $1.47 million specifically to provide supported housing to homeless persons living with AIDS. This grant is being jointly administered with the City of Berkeley, with 15 certificates allocated to Berkeley clients, and 20 certificates allocated to clients throughout the County. HCD administers a FY98 Project-based Rental Assistance Program (PRA) grant to assist 14 units at Alameda Point, the former Alameda Naval Air Station in the amount of $$76,360, and was also awarded a FY98 SRA grant of $464,940 to assist nine units at the Housing Alliance development in Castro Valley. McKinney/i~ento Homeless Assistance: Transitional and Permanent Housing In FY95, Alameda County HCD received athree-year Supportive Housing Program grant from HUD for $2.5 million for the Alameda County Housing/Jobs Linkages Program. This program Action Plan - RY2002 City of San Leandro Page 13