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DR A F T City of San Leandro FY 2014‐2015 CAPER 13 OMB Control No: 2506‐0117 (exp. 07/31/2015) Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again Objective: Create Suitable Living Environment Priority: Support public services. Davis Street Family Resource Center (Davis Street) ‐ Affordable Housing Services In FY 2015‐2016, the City provided City General Funds to Davis Street to assist individuals seeking housing search assistance, specifically being placed into permanent housing. During the fiscal year, Davis Street served 565 clients , of which 13 households were placed into permanent housing throughout the City; 5 clients were assisted with security deposits, 3 clients were assisted with past due rent, and 7 clients received emergency hotel vouchers. Davis Street also provided 487 homeless or at risk of becoming homeless individuals with information on local services to help them with their housing search. EveryOne Home EveryOne Home, Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department and Behavioral Health Care Services are collaborating to create a registry of all homeless and disabled people, who have been assessed and prioritized for permanent supportive housing. The most vulnerable (chronically homeless, high service users) will be assigned housing navigators to aid them in their housing search and application process. Eventually all 1900 units of PSH will be filled from this "Home Stretch Registry", as it is called. As of July 2016, Continuum of Care and Mental Health Services Act funded Permanent Supportive Housing in the County fills vacancies using this single registry of homeless disabled persons who have been prioritized based on need and length of time homeless. The Home Stretch initiative is the Continuum’s primary focus for bringing an end to chronic homelessness. According to the 2015 Point‐In‐Time Count, the number of persons experiencing chronic homelessness has dropped from 931 in 2013 to 660 in 2015. Operation Vets Home is the collaborative continuum‐wide effort to bring an end to veteran homelessness by 12/31/16. The Committee consists of EveryOne Home, the Veterans Administration and four Support Services for Veterans Family grantees, and several street outreach programs. The group has identified all homeless vets by name and assigned them to an agency that has subsidies available and outreach workers to enroll and engage vets. According to the registry, the number of homeless veterans at a point in time has dropped by 36% since January 2016. The HOME Consortium has also expanded resources for families experiencing homelessness and seen the number of homeless families drop by 30% from 462 in 2013 to 324 in the 2015 Point‐In‐Time Count. One major shift that took effect during this reporting period was to convert a scattered site transitional housing program that served 47 families per year to Rapid Rehousing, which allows the program to step‐down the rental subsidy amount gradually over time, allowing the subsidy funds to be spread over more families, doubling the program’s annual capacity. Providers within the Consortium have also been awarded funds to rehouse homeless families on TANF using money from the State of California award to the County Social Service Agency. ESG funds and County general funds are also assisting families.