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IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />RESOLUTION NO.2022-058 <br />RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL ENDORSING THE <br />ALAMEDA COUNTY HOME TOGETHER 2026 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN <br />WHEREAS, the Home Together 2026 Implementation Plan (Home Together 2026) is a <br />community -wide plan for Alameda County which lays out the goals, strategies, and investments <br />needed to dramatically reduce homelessness by 2026 and reverse racial disparities in <br />homelessness through fully centering equity; and <br />WHEREAS, on any given night over 8,000 people experience homelessness in Alameda <br />County, a number that grows to approximately 15,000 people over the course of a year; and <br />WHEREAS, more than 90% of the households in Alameda County are adults without <br />children, including nearly 10% who are between the ages of 18 and 24; and <br />WHEREAS, dramatic racial disparities exist in Alameda County as in the nation as a <br />whole, and the homeless population does not reflect the demographics of the county; and <br />WHEREAS, in Alameda County, African Americans experience homelessness at more <br />than four times their representation in the population (47% vs. 11 %); and <br />WHEREAS, in Alameda County, Native Americans, multiracial people and Hawaiian <br />Native/Pacific Islanders are all vastly overrepresented in homelessness, among those newly <br />homeless and in the rates at which they return to homelessness even after getting into housing; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, Home Together 2026 builds and is informed by existing local and regional <br />plans, including the 2020 Centering Racial Equity in Homeless System Design report (CRE), All <br />Home Regional Action Plan, and Plan Bay Area 2050; and <br />WHEREAS, Home Together 2026 is also responsive to requirements laid out in the <br />California Comeback Plan necessary to receive critical State housing and health funding; and <br />WHEREAS, the homeless system modeling conducted in 2019-2020 and updated in <br />2021 points to significant gaps in the current system in terms of both housing resources and <br />program types; and <br />WHEREAS, only an estimated 36% of those experiencing homelessness can be <br />supported by the current system's resources or are able to find housing or leave homelessness on <br />their own; and <br />WHEREAS, without significant effort and investment including prevention, shelter <br />expansion, increasing housing solutions, and strengthening the system's overall capacity, <br />homelessness in Alameda County will continue to grow; and <br />WHEREAS, the total estimated cost of needed investments over the coming five years to <br />fully meet the need is $2.5 billion, including approximately $430 million for additional shelter, <br />