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of Berkeley and Oakland, housing developers, service providers, faith and business leaders, advocates and consumers. Everyone Home has five (5) active committees with a total member of over 100 people representing dozens of government and non-profit agencies. Everyone Home receives administrative funding through Alameda County's General Fund as well as contributions from Alameda County's jurisdictions, individuals and foundations. As of June 30, 2009, the Plan has been adopted by the County and thirteen (13) cities. Piedmont will consider adoption this September. In addition, fifty-four (54) community based organizations have also endorsed the Everyone HOME Plan and are participating in implementation strategies along with the cities and county government. 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 5I2 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, those staying in shelters, transitional housing, the streets, or other places not meant for human habitation has dropped by 10% since 2007, from 4,831 to 4,341. The drop in the chronic homeless was even better, ] 8% since 2007, from 1,257 to 1,026. The chronically homeless are unaccompanied, disabled adults who have been homeless 12 months or more or four times within the last three years. The count also revealed a 168°/o 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. That number nearly tripled from 1,134 to 3,042. The Count methodology allowed for capturing the hidden homeless as well as the literally homeless. And it enabled us to break data out by geographic regions as well as the entire county. For more detailed information on the Count visit the website at www.everyoneho~ne.org 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 acounty-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. Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2008-2009 City of San Leandro Page ] 1