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FY2008-2009 CAPER -6- September 21, 2009 County-wide activities during this fiscal year included: • In November 2008 Everyone Home released its first progress report toward the achievement of the system-wide outcome of placing 15,000 homeless households into permanent housing over the life of the Plan. In fiscal years 2006-2008, 950 households were placed into permanent housing. Also Everyone Home partners have created 512 housing opportunities since the launch of the Plan-132 built units and 380 permanent rental subsidies. • In January 2009 Everyone Home conducted the County's bi-annual, point in time Homeless Count. Nearly 200 volunteers went to twenty-seven (27) service sites across the county and spoke with 1,251 people to learn about their housing status and other service needs. The data findings were released at a July 9, 2009 press conference. The literally homeless, has dropped by 10% since 2007, from 4,831 to 4,341. The drop in the chronic homeless was even better, 18% since 2007, from 1,257 to 1,026. However, the count also revealed a 168% increase in the hidden homeless, those who are living temporarily with friends or relatives, or in a motel that do not have the resources to move into housing or are within 7 days of an eviction. • The biggest project of Everyone Home in this fiscal year as been the coordination of planning for the implementation of the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing funds made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Six (6) jurisdictions in Alameda County received direct allocations totaling $7.5 million dollars, and five (5) cities also applied to the state for an additional $4.7 million over three years. These funds will allow Everyone Home partners to implement a county-wide homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing program for the first time ever. The program design calls for the creation of regional Housing Resource Centers where individuals and families with a housing crisis can receive financial assistance that will enable them to keep their housing or rapidly regain housing if they are already homeless. Centers will be based in Fremont, San Leandro, Livermore, two in Oakland, and Berkeley. The centers are scheduled to open and begin serving people in October, 2009. Priority: Support public services. • Services for Low-Income Families, Children, Women in Crises, Seniors and Persons with Disabilities • The City funded five (5) projects (operated by four (4) agencies) with CDBG funds -- Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC), Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC), Eden Council for Hope and Opportunity (ECHO), and Project Literacy. Collectively, they provided services to 11,248 low-income persons. These services include emergency housing, provision of food, clothing, childcare, medical care, and job readiness training, fair housing and landlord/tenant counseling, and literacy educational programs. • With money from its General Fund, the City provided funding to twenty-one (21) non- profit social service agencies that offer a total of twenty-two (22) programs. Services provided include childcare, adult literacy, health & counseling, and catering to the needs of several target groups such as the homeless, adults, youth, persons with disabilities, and