Reso 2021-135 FY 20-21 Consolidated Annual Performance and Eval Report

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The City of Hayward leveraged CDBG funds along with State funds, the City's General Fund, and private donations to open a Housing Navigation Center in November 2019. The 45-bed Housing Navigation Center provides shelter and individualized housing services for individuals experiencing homelessness. Administered by Bay Area Community Services (BACS), staff conduct outreach in local encampments and partner with law enforcement to identify individuals in need of services. Since its opening in November, 47 individuals have successfully exited the Navigation Center to permanent housing. In addition, Alameda County, with funding from the State's Project Roomkey program, has made more than 1,000 hotel rooms available for homeless and at -risk households in response to COVID-19. The majority of the Continuum of Care's homeless population continues to be unsheltered (79% as of the January 29, 2019 Point -In -Time Count). The strategy for meeting this need is twofold: 1) Move unsheltered people directly from the streets to permanent housing without a shelter stay. Abode's outreach program has had success in housing 3 times as many people from the streets as the prior year. 2) Try and resolve persons' homelessness more quickly, especially in transitional housing, so that each bed is used to support multiple people throughout the year. Unfortunately, lengths of stay have increased in both shelter and transitional housing. Time spent homeless has decreased from 208 days last year to 192 days this year. Helping low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low-income individuals and families and those who are: likely to become homeless after being discharged from publicly funded institutions and systems of care (such as health care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); and, receiving assistance from public or private agencies that address housing, health, social services, employment, education, or youth needs The Continuum of Care is working with a number of publicly funded institutions of care to ensure that persons are not discharged into homelessness. The Realignment Housing Program has housing specialists work with persons in the County jail on their housing needs prior to their release date and is funded by Alameda County Probation Department to rapidly rehouse those who are or could become homeless. It also participated actively in the Youth Transitions Planning partnership funded by Health and Human services (HHS) to ensure that no transitional age youth aging out of foster care exits to homelessness. The partnership works to coordinate the foster care and McKinney funded housing resources to ensure youth do not fall out of housing. Alameda County is a "housing first" Continuum of Care. All funded programs prioritize finding clients permanent housing as quickly as possible without any clinical pre -conditions, such as sobriety, medication compliance or utilizing a shelter or transitional housing program first. We continue to expand Rapid Rehousing and Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) throughout the county. Rapid Rehousing beds increased from 549 in 2019 to 633 in 2020. Likewise, county -wide PSH went from 2,376 beds in 2019 to 2753 in 2020. VASH vouchers increased from 35 in 2019 to 325 in 2020. Measure Al CAPER 16 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021)