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City of San Leandro FY 2017‐18 CAPER 19 OMB Control No: 2506‐0117 (exp. 06/30/2018) therefore not eligible for a hearing under the Rent Review Ordinance. 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 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 (PSH). 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 PSH program 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 CoC’s primary focus for bringing an end to chronic homelessness. Operation Vets Home is the collaborative Continuum‐wide effort to bring an end to veteran homelessness. The Committee consists of EveryOne Home, the Veterans Administration and four Support Services for Veterans Family grantees, including grant per diem providers and several street outreach programs. The group has identified all homeless veterans by name and assigned them to an agency that has subsidies available and outreach workers to enroll and engage veterans. The initiative is focusing on housing chronically homeless veterans in 2017 and 2018. 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 270 in the 2017 Point‐In‐Time Count. One major shift that took effect prior to this reporting period was the conversion of 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.