Housing and Community Development First (5th) Year Action Plan (2019)

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AP-65 Homeless and Other Special Needs Activities - 91.420, 91.220(i) Describe the jurisdiction's one-year goals and actions for reducing and ending homelessness including: Reaching out to homeless persons (especially unsheltered persons) and assessing their individual needs The City and Regional Planning Council (RPC) agencies have worked together to design, implement, and fund the Coordinated Entry process. A collaborative process, decisions were made to use the VI-SPDAT as an assessment tool, have specific times/days/locations for application, and conduct monthly meetings. u Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons The RPC continues to discuss and work on strategies that will result in the following priorities: Restructuring the traditional shelter system toward the Housing First model and meeting Hearth Act priorities, and supporting the City's efforts in joining the Mayor's Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness I • Focusing on rapid re-housing activities • Using two distinct approaches, one for situational impoverished homeless individuals and one for the chronically improverished homeless,to re-house them • Reducing the unsheltered or precariously housed population • Reducing the time spent in transitional housing Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again I The chronically homeless, severely mentally ill, veterans, persons with HIV/AIDS,victims of domestic violence, and youth will be moved into rapid re-housing options rather than the traditional shelter system whenever possible;the chronic substance abuse homeless subpopulation will use a traditional shelter model with expanded services and programs. In addition to the Center for the Homeless Robert L. Miller, Sr.Veteran's Center, low income housing tax credits were awarded for a facility for the chronically homeless with substance abuse issues who typically stay outside of the shelter system. Oliver Annual Action Plan 52 2019 OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.06/30/2018)