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Item 4-A Exhibit 1: Staff Report
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Date: April 25, 2019
To: Honorable President and Members of the Social Service Human Relations Board
From: Ana Bagtas, Community Development Analyst
Re: Recommendation for City Council to adopt EveryOne Home's Plan to End Homelessness: 2018 Strategic Update
BACKGROUND
EveryOne Home is the collective impact organization that addresses and aims to end homelessness in Alameda County, uniting the efforts of city and county government partners, nonprofit service providers, homeless consumers, and community members. In 2006, EveryOne Home released the original countywide strategic plan to end homelessness, which was subsequently adopted by the County Board of Supervisors and all 14 local jurisdictions.
In 2018, EveryOne Home undertook a year-long and inclusive community process to update the plan to better reflect the current realities of the Bay Area's housing market, identify resource needs, and set goals to tackle the homeless challenges in the county. This work resulted in the development of the report titled Plan to End Homelessness: 2018 Strategic Update. EveryOne Home presented this updated plan to the Social Service Human Relations Board ("Board") at its November 29, 2018 Special Meeting.
DISCUSSION
In 2018, EveryOne Home undertook a countywide process to update its strategic plan that was originally developed more than a decade ago. The Plan to End Homelessness: 2018 Strategic Update (Attachment B) provides an analysis of the countywide homelessness data to determine the extent of needs of the homeless across Alameda County and the size and cost of interventions to address those needs.
Some of the highlights of the report include:
* Over the course of a given year, more than 12,000 people experience homelessness in Alameda County. For every person who exits homelessness, two new people enter it. If trends continue, this rate will increase the homeless population by 1,500 annually.
* The homel...
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