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CAPER 14 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021) The majority of the Continuum of Care’s homeless population continues to be unsheltered (79% as of the January 29, 2019 Point-In-Time Count). The strategy for meeting this need is twofold: 1) Move unsheltered people directly from the streets to permanent housing without a shelter stay. Abode’s outreach program has had success in housing 3 times as many people from the streets as the prior year. 2) Try and resolve persons’ homelessness more quickly, especially in transitional housing, so that each bed is used to support multiple people throughout the year. Unfortunately, lengths of stay have increased in both shelter and transitional housing. Time spent homeless has increased from 208 days last year to 213 days this year. Helping low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low-income individuals and families and those who are: likely to become homeless after being discharged from publicly funded institutions and systems of care (such as health care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); and, receiving assistance from public or private agencies that address housing, health, social services, employment, education, or youth needs The Continuum is working with a number of publicly funded institutions of care to ensure that persons are not discharged into homelessness. The Realignment Housing Program has housing specialists work with persons in the County jail on their housing needs prior to their release date and is funded by Alameda County Probation Department to rapidly rehouse those who are or could become homeless. It also participated actively in the Youth Transitions Planning partnership funded by Health and Human services (HHS) to ensure that no transitional age youth aging out of foster care exits to homelessness. The partnership works to coordinate the foster care and McKinney funded housing resources to ensure youth do not fall out of housing. Alameda County is a “housing first” Continuum of Care. All funded programs prioritize finding clients permanent housing as quickly as possible without any clinical pre-conditions, such as sobriety, medication compliance or utilizing a shelter or transitional housing program first. We continue to expand Rapid Rehousing and Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) throughout the county. County-wide PSH went from 2,753 in 2020 to 3710 in 2021. VASH vouchers increased from 325 in 2020 to 364 in 2021. Measure A1 funding has been committed to 46 projects and 1003 units targeted to homeless households within those projects.