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31 Non-congregate shelter: locations where each individual or household has living space that offers some level of privacy such as hotels, motels, or dormitories. Housing Navigation: housing navigation involves helping a household that is homeless develop a housing plan, address the barriers identified during the plan, and acquire documentation and complete forms required for housing. Housing Pathway: The set of programs and resources expected to be used by a household experiencing homelessness in order to be temporarily sheltered and to become permanently housed. The modeling for the Home Together Plan uses assumption about a variety of different housing pathways to determine the resource needs and gaps. Housing Problem Solving: Housing problem solving is an approach to help homeless households use their strengths, support networks, and community resources to find housing. Housing Resource Center: Dedicated Housing Resource Centers (also referred to as “Access Points”) are located throughout Alameda County and are locations where people experiencing homelessness can connect with available resources and services. Older Adults: adults aged 55 and older; also referred to as Seniors. Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH): Permanent subsidies based on income and services to keep tenants in stable housing. Point in Time (PIT) Count: An unduplicated one-night estimate of both sheltered and unsheltered homeless populations (to be distinguished from the number of people experiencing homelessness annually). Project Homekey: Through Project Homekey the state awards funding that allows municipalities to purchase and rehabilitate hotels, motels, vacant apartment buildings and other properties, and convert them into permanent, long-term housing. Project Roomkey: Established in March 2020 as part of the state response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the purpose of Project Roomkey is to provide non-congregate shelter options for people experiencing homelessness, protect human life, and minimize strain on health care system capacity. Racial Equity: The systemic fair treatment of people of all races that results in equitable opportunities and outcomes for everyone. All people are able to achieve their full potential in life, regardless of race, ethnicity, or the community in which they live. Racism: a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular race; behavior or attitudes that reflect and foster this belief. Racism takes many forms, including: Rapid Re-Housing (RRH): Time-limited rental subsidy and support services with the intention of the household taking over lease and sustaining on their own. Sheltered homelessness: A person experiencing homelessness who is living in a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangement. Results Based Accountability: A framework that uses a data-driven, decision- making process to help communities and organizations identify population level results and monitor their programs' performance in order to determine how to improve their impact on the clients they serve.