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Action Plan-FY1999 City of San Leandro Page 12 accessibility modifications to people living with HIV/AIDS throughout Alameda County. Through FY 98, its second year, the program had served approximately 164 households. Three agencies are administering the rental assistance and support service component of this program: The Ark of Refuge and the AIDS Project of the East Bay in Oakland and the Tri-City Health Center in Fremont. Approximately one third of the assisted households live within the HOME Consortium. HCD will seek renewal of this program in FY 1999. Alameda County also received funding for 35 additional Shelter Plus Care certificates to be targeted specifically to homeless persons with AIDS and related disorders. This program is administered jointly with the City of Berkeley and began operating in August 1997. In its first operating year, the program provided rental assistance and support services for 31 people with AIDS as well as their families . Alameda County HCD will shortly enter into a contract with the City of Oakland for $1,155,013 in FY1998 HOPWA funds. These funds will be used to continue to provide operating support and support services in dedicated AIDS housing within the existing continuum developed under the AIDS Housing Plan, as well as to fund the development of new units specifically set-aside for tenancy by PLWH and their families in non-AIDS specific, special needs, mainstream and affordable housing developments. HCD also plans to increase the capacity of AIDS housing providers through small targeted technical assistance grants. An emerging issue for HOPWA programs throughout the country is the possible entry/re-entry into the work-force of PLWHs who reside in subsidized housing. Since some PLWH are now living longer due to new medical treatments, their continued, long-term residency decreases the availability of affordable housing to other PLWH who may have greater needs. HCD is participating in the Alameda County HIV Initiative for Employment and Vocational Education (ACHIEVE ) Collaborative, a county-wide effort to leverage back-to-work funding from governmental and private sources for people living with HIV. ACHIEVE received a small grant from Bailey House in New York to conduct a needs assessment survey in FY 1998 among PLWH about their interest in employment and vocational services. Once this needs assessment survey is completed, HCD will evaluate whether to invest HOPWA funds in a more in-depth planning process or to work with the Collaborative to develop County-wide services for PLWH in subsidized housing seeking to work.