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19 Racial disparities among newly homeless households are even more extreme than among the homeless population overall, especially for African Americans, Native Americans, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders and multiracial people.   Table 10. Racially disparate rates of new Homelessness African Americans Native Americans Multiracial Native HI/Pacific Islander Percent of County Population 11% 1% 5% 1% Percent of newly homeless 58% 5% 6% 2% Rate of new homelessness 5.3 5 1.2 2 Source: Oakland-Berkeley-Alameda County Continuum of Care. Centering Racial Equity in Homeless System Design. January 2021. Prevention assistance is typically administered outside the homelessness response system covered by social services and community development funding streams. Research shows that while many low- income people experience housing crises that could lead to homelessness, people most likely to become homeless have specific risk factors including extremely low incomes, histories of homelessness, and living in highly impacted neighborhoods.35 To be effective, resources to prevent homelessness must target those with the greatest likelihood of becoming homeless. To reduce new incidents of homelessness, we must direct resources to those closest to becoming homeless without assistance, and to those who have lost housing but can recover it with timely support. Another contributing factor to continuing homelessness is that some households assisted into permanent housing through the homelessness response system may lose their housing again when program resources run out or circumstances change. Returns to homelessness in Alameda County are higher among African Americans and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders. Table 11. Disparities in Rates of Return to Homelessness, FFY 2019 System Average African Americans Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders Rate of Return to Homelessness 18% 21% 23% Source: Oakland-Berkeley-Alameda County Continuum of Care. Centering Racial Equity in Homeless System Design. January 2021. Home Together proposes to reduce the rates of return to homelessness by half from 21% in 2022 (Year 1 of the Plan) to 9% in 2026 (Year 5 of the Plan).36 To address racial disparities in new homelessness and returns to homelessness, programs will be targeted and tailored to specific household needs and the county’s providers and administrators will target and track these disparities. Four activity areas specifically target reductions in new homelessness and returns to homelessness.  35 Center for Evidence-based Solutions to Homelessness. Homelessness Prevention, A Review of the Literature. January 2019. 36 Source: Adult Only Household Model. CA-502 System Model, Abt Associates. 1/20/22. Note rates are for Adult Only households.