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iii renovating hotels used as shelters during the pandemic. By Year 5 the amount of shelter needed on an ongoing basis is expected to be slightly less than what is available today if all housing resources are in place The total cost of increasing the shelter and housing inventory over the coming five years to fully meet the need would be $2.5 billion. This includes roughly $430 million for additional shelter, $1.68 billion for permanent housing such as dedicated affordable housing and permanent supportive housing, and $388 million for prevention, rapid rehousing and shallow (more limited) subsidies within the homelessness response system. This does not include the one-time development costs for new buildings, but covers operations and services, and subsidies to help people rent existing housing. Similar to their proportion of the homeless population, the new investments are roughly 10% ($194 million) for inventory and resources for households with minor children, and 90% ($2.3 billion) for the inventory and resources to serve adult only households, including transition age youth. To reach these goals while decreasing racial disparities, the Home Together Plan recommends specific action steps in four categories: 1) Prevent Homelessness for our Residents a. Address racial disparities in mainstream/upstream systems to prevent disproportionate inflow of African Americans into homelessness b. Focus resources for prevention on people most likely to lose their homes c. Rapidly resolve episodes of homelessness through Housing Problem Solving  d. Prevent racially disproportionate returns to homelessness  2) Connect People to Shelter and Needed Resources a. Provide neighborhood-based access where people are most likely to lose housing b. Lower programmatic barriers to crisis services such as prevention, problem solving, and shelter c. Prevent discharge from mainstream systems to homelessness d. Significantly increase the availability of shelter, especially non-congregate models, to serve vulnerable adults and families with children and to reduce unsheltered homelessness. e. Provide accessible behavioral health services to people with serious mental illness or substance use needs and who are unsheltered, in shelter, or in supportive housing programs. 3) Increase Housing Solutions a. Add units and subsidies for permanent supportive housing b. Create units with more intensive health services for seniors and medically fragile residents c. Create dedicated affordable housing subsidies for people who do not need intensive services d. Create shallow subsidies for those who need more limited assistance e. Add new slots of rapid rehousing for those who can take over their full rent given time f. Ensure new housing funding is distributed according to need g. Reduce entry barriers to housing and ensure racial equity in referrals and placements 4) Strengthen Coordination, Communication and Capacity a. Use data to improve outcomes and track racial equity impacts b.  Improve messaging and information availability  c. Build infrastructure to support new and expanded programs