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(Header for Odd Numbered Pages: Times 8 point, bold, flush right) Action Plan - FY1997 City of Page 9 Alameda County Housing/Jobs Linkages Program (Supportive Housing Program) In FY95, Alameda County HCD received a three year Supportive Housing Program grant from HUD for $2.5 million for the Alameda County Housing/Jobs Linkages Program. This grant proposal was a joint effort of HCD and the Alameda County Associated Community Action Program (ACAP). The program provides transitional rental assistance, job development and support services for homeless families connected with one of seven shelters in the HOME Consortium. The participating shelters are the San Leandro Shelter for Women and Children, the Family Emergency Shelter Coalition (FESCO) and the Emergency Shelter Program (ESP) in Hayward, the Tri-City Homeless Coalition and Shelter Against Violent Environments (SAVE) in Fremont, and the Tri-Valley Haven and Valley Health Center in Livermore. Under contract to HCD, Allied Housing (Hayward) administers the rental assistance component and BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self -Sufficiency), also in Hayward, provides job development services. As of December 1996 a total of 35 families were being assisted by the program. It is anticipated that more than 100 families will receive support over the life of the program. As a part of this grant, HCD as contracted with FESCO and Tri-Cities Homeless Coalition for the acquisition and rehabilitation of up to 12 units of transitional housing at scattered South County sites. One site has been acquired by FESCO, and negotiations are proceeding on other sites. In 1996, HCD was awarded two new grants in the McKinney NOFA competition and is now preparing final submittals to HUD. Twelve units of transitional housing on the former Alameda Naval Air Station will be rehabilitated and operated by United Indian Nations using an SHP grant. The rehabilitation of the former Navy Lodge, also at Alameda NAS, was awarded a $1,670,400 SRO Moderate Rehabilitation grant. The facility will be operated by the San Leandro Shelter for Women and Children. Alameda County Base Closure Collaborative On October 25, 1994, President Clinton signed into law the Base Closure Community Redevelopment and Homeless Assistance Act of 1994, S 2534. This Act authorizes HUD to determine whether a base reuse plan for the reuse of an installation proposed by a local reuse authority balances the community development, economic redevelopment and other development needs of the communities in the vicinity of the installation with the needs of the homeless in those communities. Established in 1994, the Alameda County Homeless Base Conversion Collaborative (The Homeless Collaborative) grew out of a common vision of homeless providers that the conversion of military bases in the East Bay afforded the entire community an opportunity to access base resources in a manner that integrated the needs of the homeless with the needs of the greater community. And, in addition, that by forming such a collaborative, the opportunities presented as a result of base conversion could be maximized by enabling the homeless community to speak as -- 3