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Action Plan-FY1999 City of San Leandro Page 13 Shelter Plus Care Alameda County HCD is the grantee for three 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, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or related diseases, who are living on the streets or in other places not fit for human habitation. 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. 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 agencies. 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 an 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. HCD 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.