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Action Plan - FY2000 City of San Leandro Page 33 Shelter Plus Care Alameda County HCD is the grantee for five competitive 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 Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, 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, AIDS and related disorders, who are living on the streets, in other places not fit for human habitation, or in emergency shelter. Shelter Plus Care provides assistance to clients through rental assistance payments and a broad range of supportive services provided by a network of over 40 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. Shelter Plus Care Program grants are made by HUD on a competitive basis to local jurisdictions and government entities. HCD administers a FY 92 Sponsor -based Rental Assistance (SRA) grant and a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) grant; together these amount to $9.2 million. The SRA grant subsidizes, through contracts with non - profit organizations, 74 units located throughout the County. The SRO grant subsidizes 59 SRO units in at the Harrison Apartments in downtown Oakland as well as additional 32 Tenant -based Rental Assistance (TRA) certificates that were converted from previous SRO units. HCD also administers a FY 93 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. Both the FY 92 and the FY 93 TRA grant have received five -year extensions. 11CD also administers a FY96 TRA grant of $1.47 million specifically to provide permanent 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. In December 1998, HCD was awarded two new SRA grants that will subsidize nine units in Southern Alameda County and 14 units at the former Naval Air Station in Oakland. The grant amounts are $464,940 and $876,360 respectively. Start -up for these units is expected by mid -year in 2000.