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1 1. Background and Introduction This Home Together Implementation Plan (the Plan) is a community-wide plan for Alameda County which lays out the goals and strategies needed to dramatically reduce homelessness by 2026 and combat racial disparities in homelessness through fully centering equity. The Plan’s overarching goals and time frame align with Alameda County’s Vision 2026 which holds as one of its primary objectives to “ensure the availability of diverse and affordable housing for all residents with the goal of eliminating homelessness in Alameda County.” The Home Together Plan covers a five-year time frame, beginning January 2022 and ending December 2026. This Plan builds on a variety of processes and planning that has occurred during the last two years, including: • The racial equity analysis and system modeling process that is detailed in the January 2020 Centering Racial Equity in Homeless System Design (CRE) report • Racial Equity Action Lab (convened by the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative) which centered lived expertise input and process recommendations on implementing CRE • The Home Together Plan adopted by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in August of 2020 Home Together 2026 provides a strategic roadmap for implementing the Centering Racial Equity recommendations generated during 2019-2020. This Community-wide Plan includes five-year targets for the creation of significant quantities of new housing and shelter in order to meet the unmet need of all people experiencing homelessness by 2026. A companion Home Together County Action Plan speaks to the specific role of the County in co-leading efforts to address homelessness with cities and community partners, and the key roles of specific county agencies and resources. Cities within Alameda County have participated in the community process for this overarching Community Plan and are encouraged to develop and adopt similar jurisdictional implementation plans to align with the Community plan. CRE and recent strategy sessions to create this plan have been informed by a diverse group of stakeholders. The initial Centering Racial Equity report, and this Plan, were supported by in-depth needs analysis conducted by national technical assistance provider Abt Associates. The recommendations were informed by an extensive community input process which included participation of system leaders, program participants, service providers and other partners in homelessness response. The process included research using local data and multiple focus groups with people of color who were currently or recently homeless regarding their race-impacted experiences. The CRE report resulted in recommendations for significant system additions but did not include action steps to implement the recommendations. As the Home Together Community Plan was developed it became clear that some updating to the original needs analysis was necessary. The COVID-19 Pandemic, which began shortly after the CRE modeling was completed, has changed the landscape of resources, and some data used from 2019 was able to be updated with more complete information from the countywide Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). While some updates were made, there was also a strong commitment to maintain the critical assumptions and decisions that were widely discussed in the CRE planning process. To consider changes and updates to the model, a planning group was jointly convened by County’s Office of Homeless Care and Coordination (OHCC) and EveryOne Home (EOH), the CoC backbone