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topics covering tips on how to search for rentals, positive ways to communicate with a <br />potential landlord, fair housing resources, and how to obtain a credit history. An average <br />of twenty (20) callers a week inquired about housing assistance and the availability of <br />affordable rental units. <br />• Assisted four (4) clients to enroll in waiting lists for BMR properties in San Leandro. An <br />additional six (6) assisted clients found housing in non-BMR properties located in the <br />neighboring cities. <br />Conducted six (6) site visits at Below Market Rate (BMR) properties in San Leandro. <br />Staff also maintained regular contact with Eden Information & Referral (Eden I&R) to <br />provide updates on vacancies and waiting lists of BMR properties. <br />• Continued to maintain its close relationship with Building Futures with Women & <br />Children (BFWC) by providing supportive services, such as housing searches, <br />employment counseling, emergency shelter, and clothing, to twenty (20) BFWC clients. <br />DSFRC, moreover, continually sends updated BMR vacancy or waiting list information <br />to BFWC to keep them abreast of affordable housing opportunities for their clients. <br />• Distributed information regarding April Showers, which are organized by the Interfaith <br />Homeless Network for homeless individuals. <br />• Are in the process of replacing its current database system with aweb-based Homeless <br />Management Information System (HMIS)-compatible software. DSFRC projects that <br />this complete transition will be completed by the end of calendar year (December 2009). <br />Priority # 7. Build on inter-jurisdictional cooperation and further <br />coordination and improvement of the homeless Continuum of Care System. <br />Activities: <br />• Continuum ojCare Council and Everyone Home <br />After ten years of coordinating local efforts to address homelessness, the Alameda County-wide <br />Continuum of Care Council transferred its responsibilities to Everyone Home and celebrated its <br />final meeting in November 2008. Everyone Home is the community-based organization formed to <br />coordinate the implementation of the Everyone Home Plan (formerly known as the Alameda <br />County Homeless and Special Needs Housing Plan). The Everyone Home Plan is a <br />comprehensive blueprint to end homelessness, including chronic homelessness by the year 2020, <br />and address the housing needs of extremely low income persons living with serious mental illness <br />and or HIV/AIDS. The Plan employs five (5) core strategies: <br />l . Prevent homelessness and other housing crises; <br />2. Increase housing opportunities for the Plan's target populations by 15,000 units; <br />3. Deliver flexible services to support stability and independence; <br />4. Measure success and report outcomes; and. <br />5. Develop long-term leadership and public support for ending homelessness. <br />Everyone Home uses the Tides Center as its fiscal agent. Like the Continuum of Care Council, <br />Everyone Home is a partnership of County agencies, cities, non-profits, consumers, and housing <br />advocates. The 27-member Leadership Board determines the annual implementation strategy for <br />the Everyone Home Plan and ensures the inter-agency and inter jurisdictional collaboration that <br />has been the hallmark of Alameda County's work on confronting homelessness. Members <br />represent the Plan's original sponsoring agencies, jurisdictions of the HOME Consortium, the cities <br />Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report; FY 2008-2009 <br />City of San Leandro <br />Page l0 <br />