2023 (CDBG) & (ESG) & (HOME) Program- Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report

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CR-25 - Homeless and Other Special Needs 91.220(d, e); 91.320(d, e); 91.520(c) Evaluate the jurisdiction's progress in meeting its specific objectives for reducing and ending homelessness through: Reaching out to homeless persons (especially unsheltered persons)and assessing their individual needs The City continues to provide direct financial support to the Regional Planning Council's Coordinated Entry process. Additionally, in the past year,the City and RPC worked to establish a Lived Experience Advisory Committee, in which RPC/City representatives meet monthly with currently or formerly unhoused individuals to better understand their experiences, learn their perspectives on the current system, service gaps, etc. The City's newly contracted Homeless Coordinator has created a outreach subcommittee which meets monthly to identify locations where people were staying outside,coordinate services, plan for weather amnesty, and identify gaps in services. Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons The City, as part of the Regional Planning Council,continued to discuss and work on strategies to address the needs of persons who are experiencing homelessness, or are at risk of homelessness. These stratefies resulted in the following priorities: • Continue working to restructuring the traditional shelter system utilizing the Housing First model and meeting the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (Hearth)Act priorities; and,supporting the City's efforts in joining the Mayor's Challenge to End Veteran Homlessness • Focusing on rapid re-housing activities with ESG; • Using two distinct approaches, one for circumstantially impoverished homeless and one for chronically impoverished homeless,to re-house them; • Reducing the unsheltered or precariously housed population; and • Reducing the time spent in transitional housing. The City oversees the Weather Amnesty program which provides a warm shelter for homeless individuals between the months of November and April. During the 2022/2023 season, 12,730 bed stays were utilized between two shelter facilities. A rehabiliation of the Center for the Homeless increased capacity which will allow the Weather Amnesty program to be carried out by one shelter facility. The benefit of moving to one facility is to facilitate outreach and connections to services to this population. The City also provides bus passes for agencies working with the Weather Amnesty program CAPER 28 OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.09/30/2021)