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<br />San Leandro Homeless & Housing Task Force 13 <br /> <br />CONCLUSION <br /> <br />The work of the San Leandro Homeless and Housing Task Force the past several <br />months has positioned San Leandro to be able to provide needed services for homeless <br />individuals in the upcoming winter months. The warming center pilot program will <br />provide homeless individuals with a safe and warm shelter throughout the winter. The <br />Outreach Coordinator will be instrumental in connecting the City’s homeless with <br />needed services and in identifying homeless individuals by completing the homeless <br />needs assessment for San Leandro. Davis Street will be able to extend is case <br />management services to more homeless individuals. These three immediate services <br />make up the Task Force immediate, short term homeless plan. <br /> <br />The Task Force is not tasked with providing a long-term plan addressing the City’s <br />homelessness issue. However, the Task Force recognizes that federal, state, and <br />philanthropic funds for homeless assistance programs are currently not directed to Mid- <br />County, including San Leandro. Thus, a unified long-term strategy for addressing and <br />reducing homelessness in the City of San Leandro involves obtaining federal, state, and <br />philanthropic homeless assistance funds for San Leandro’s homeless. <br /> <br />Building Futures with Women & Children has already successfully leveraged the Task <br />Force’s short-term homeless plan to submit an application, through Alameda County <br />Housing & Community Development’s Continuum of Care Program, to obtain 25 Shelter <br />Plus Care vouchers for chronically homeless individuals in San Leandro. If granted, <br />HUD will provide indefinite supportive housing subsidies to 25 eligible households to <br />move them out of homelessness and into safe, permanent housing. This HUD funding <br />will have a big impact on the unsheltered population of homeless individuals on the <br />streets of San Leandro. <br /> <br />Funding may also be available from Alameda County Housing & Community <br />Development’s soon-to-be released Request for Proposal (RFP) for its “Boomerang” <br />Rapid Re-housing program. The goal of this program is to prevent and end <br />homelessness by providing short-term tenant-based rental assistance, housing <br />navigation and case management services to homeless and at-risk individuals and <br />families in Alameda County. The Task Force hopes that its work allows local non-profits <br />to be eligible to apply for these funds when the County releases its RFP this winter. <br /> <br />The Task Force cannot emphasize enough how vital additional funding and resources <br />are to the long-term blueprint of addressing and reducing homelessness in San <br />Leandro. The Task Force’s short-term plan, along with the City’s funding commitments, <br />have already initiated the process of directing financial funds for homeless assistance to <br />the City for the first time. The Task Force appreciates the City of San Leandro’s role in <br />coordinating the task force and acknowledges that more work must be done to ensure <br />that funds and resources are directed to serving homeless San Leandrans now and in <br />the future.