GOOD. AND WELCOME TO OUR JOINT
HEARING ON HOMELESSNESS. WELCOME
TO OUR EVIDENCE BASED STRATEGIES
TO REDUCE AND PREVENT
HOMELESSNESS, WHICH WE WILL BE
FOCUSING ON TODAY. THIS IS, UH,
IN HERE, A PERSON HEARING. ALL
PANELISTS WILL BE IN PERSON.
PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE TAKEN AT
THE END OF THIS HEARING. HOWEVER
IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND IN PERSON,
YOU MAY SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS VIA
AN EMAIL TO ASSEMBLY BUDGET AT
ASSEMBLY DOT èC DOT GOV. OR
THROUGH THE HOUSING AND
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTEES, PORTAL. KEEP BLOWING
UP HERE. WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS
BUDGET IS GOING TO BE
CHALLENGING, BUT BY WORKING
TOGETHER AND FOCUSING ON THE
VALUES THAT MAKE CALIFORNIA
GREAT WE CAN ENSURE THIS BUDGET
YEAR CONTINUES TO PROTECT THOSE
WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE. AS
SHOWN IN THE BACKGROUND
INFORMATION. THERE ARE 11
DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE STATE
BUDGET THAT PROVIDES SOME TYPE
OF HOMELESS SUPPORT. 11
DEPARTMENTS. TODAY WE WILL FOCUS
ON THOSE PROGRAMS UNDER THE
JURISDICTION OF SUB COMMITTEE
FIVE AND THE HOUSING AND
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
COMMITTEE, INCLUDING THE
HOMELESS, HOUSING ASSISTANT
ASSISTANCE AND PREVENTION
PROGRAM, OR HÌ, HÌ, A P PROGRAM
AND THE ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION
FUNDS CURRENTLY ABOUT 181,000.
EXPERIENCE HOMELESSNESS DAILY
AND 68% OF HOMELESS CALIFORNIANS
ARE SHELTERED. UNDERSTANDING
WHETHER THE PROGRAMS WE FUND ARE
HELPING TO END AND PREVENT
HOMELESSNESS IS EXTREMELY
IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY IN A
BUDGET WHERE RESOURCES ARE GOING
TO COMPETE TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS
OF ALL CALIFORNIANS. TODAY'S
HEARING WILL EXPLORE WHAT IS
HAPPENING WITH CALIFORNIA'S
POPULATION THAT IS EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS THROUGH THE HEARING
. WE WILL DISCUSS DATA THE STATE
IS COLLECTING ON OUR PROGRAMS
AND OUR UNHOUSED POPULATION.
HEAR TESTIMONIALS FROM LOCALS
ABOUT SUCCESSES IN THEIR
COMMUNITIES TO COMBAT
HOMELESSNESS AND FINALLY TURN
OUR ATTENTION TO WHAT THE DATA
TELLS US ABOUT PREVENTION. A
SEPARATE HEARING ON THE GOVER
GOVERNOR'S BUDGET PROPOSALS WILL
BE HELD BY SUB COMMITTEE FIVE IN
APRIL. THROUGH THIS HEARING, AND
FUTURE HEARINGS ARE FOCUS WILL
BE ON EVALUATING THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMS AIMED
AT REDUCING AND PREVENTING
HOMELESSNESS. WE MUST ENSURE
THAT OUR STATES RESOURCES ARE
DIRECTED TOWARDS INITIATIVES
THAT BRING THE GREATEST IMPACT
IN ADDRESSING THIS CRITICAL
ISSUE. BEFORE WE MOVE TO THE
FIRST PANEL. I WOULD LIKE TO
TURN IT OVER TO MY CO-CHAIR
ASSEMBLY MEMBER WARD FOR ANY
OPENING COMMENTS. WELL, THANK
YOU. CHAIR, SILVA. UH GOOD
AFTERNOON. I'VE BEEN LOOKING
FORWARD TO THIS HEARING AND I
FUTURE HEARINGS AS WELL FOR SOME
TIME, BECAUSE AS WE LAST FALL,
AND YOU KNOW, PRETTY MUCH FOR AN
ONGOING CONVERSATION I'VE BEEN
IN OUR DISTRICTS, YOU KNOW,
ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IN OUR
HOUSING CRISIS HAS BEEN CENTRAL
ON EVERYBODY'S MIND AND
WONDERING WHAT THE STATE HAS
BEEN WORKING ON WHAT WE'RE DOING
ABOUT IT, AND WHAT IS AND IS NOT
WORKING. UM WE KNOW THE NUMBERS
ARE GETTING WORSE. WE KNOW FROM
OUR OWN POINT IN TIME COUNCILS,
THE NUMBERS HAVE RISEN. UM WE
ALSO NEED TO APPRECIATE THAT THE
STATE INVESTMENTS AND UH,
PARTICULARLY WHERE THEY PARTNER
WITH LOCAL AND FEDERAL SUPPORT,
UM, HAVE BEEN HELPING
INDIVIDUALS TO. SADLY WE'RE NOT
HELPING ENOUGH. UH, TOO MANY
PEOPLE ARE FALLING INTO
HOMELESSNESS, AND THAT NUMBER IS
EXCEEDING THE NUMBER WHO WE ARE
HELPING, AND SO THE CONSEQUENCES
THAT CONTINUED RISE IN THE
NUMBERS THAT WE'RE SEEING IN THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA 6% GROWTH,
UH, IN THE TOTAL NUMBERS, AT
LEAST 6% THAT WE CAN COUNT. UH,
BUT OF COURSE THAT MIRRORS, UH
OR SHOULD BE TAKEN IN THE
CONTEXT OF A 12% GROWTH
NATIONWIDE. SO WE CERTAINLY HAVE
OUR WERE CUT OUT FOR US AS THE
CHAIR. UH COR SILVA HAD
PARTICULAR HAD MENTIONED, UM IN
IN THE CONTEXT OF A DIFFICULTY
BUDGET AND WHAT I'VE BEEN
PARTICULARLY LOOKING FORWARD TO
FOR THIS HEARING, AND OUR APRIL
HEARING COMING UP, UH, IS JUST
REALLY DRILLING DOWN TO THE
EFFICACY OF MANY OF OUR
PROGRAMS. I AGREE. IT'S A VERY
DIFFICULT TO, UM APPRECIATE THAT
WE HAVE 11 DEPARTMENTS. WE KNOW
WE'VE HAD SOME CONSOLIDATION OF
SUPPORT. AND I THINK THAT THAT,
UM THAT SYNERGY BETWEEN THESE
DEPARTMENTS IS ESSENTIAL FOR US
TO COORDINATE BETTER AND TO BE
ABLE TO USE PUBLIC RESOURCE. IS
IN A MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE WAY.
UM, BUT IT'S ALSO DIFFICULT THAT
THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S JURISDICTIONS
BEING SPLIT UP THE WAY THAT THEY
ARE THAT WE'RE NOT EVEN ABLE TO
HAVE THAT TO TELL TO TELL OF
CONVERSATION HERE THAT WE'RE
SEEING IN SOME OF THESE. UM UH,
PRESENTATIONS IS THERE BEFORE US
THAT SAID, WE'VE GOT SOME
EXCELLENT SPEAKERS THAT HAVE
BEEN LINED UP FOR THIS
CONVERSATION HERE TODAY, SO
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING
THEIR TESTIMONY BECAUSE I THINK
IT'S LEVEL SETTING ABOUT THE
REALITY AND WHAT THE DATA SHOWS
US IS DRIVING MORE AND MORE
CALIFORNIANS TO SADLY, UH, BE ON
THE BRINK OF OR FALLING INTO
HOMELESSNESS AND WHAT WE CAN DO
ABOUT IT, GIVEN THE CONTEXT OF
WHAT WE HAVE TO WORK WITH, UH,
IN THE FORM OF THE MOST
EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS, UM, THAT WE
HAVE BEEN MAKING AVE INVESTMENTS
IN IT WILL BE VERY INFORMATIVE
FOR OUR FUTURE WORK. AND SO, UH,
VERY EAGER TO HEAR THE
PRESENTATIONS HERE TODAY AND TO
DRILL DOWN INTO SOME OF THESE
CONVERSATIONS. THANK YOU. THANK
YOU. ASSEMBLY MEMBER. NEXT I'D
LIKE TO ASK OF ASSEMBLY MEMBER
TIM GRAYSON WOULD LIKE TO MAKE
ANY COMMENTS. UH, THANK YOU,
MADAM CHAIR, JUST, UH, READY TO
HEAR FROM THE PANELIST, BUT NOT
ONLY IS IT INCUMBENT UPON US TO
BE GOOD, UH, UH, GOOD, GOOD AND
BEING RESOURCEFUL, BUT IT'S ALSO
INCUMBENT UPON US TO BE GOOD IN
STEWARDSHIP, AND I'M LOOKING
FORWARD TO HEARING HOW RESULTS
HAVE RENDERED GOOD SERVICES AND
WHAT KIND OF RETURN WE HAVE ON
OUR INVESTMENT. THANK YOU, UH,
WITH THAT, LET'S BRING UP OUR
FIRST PANEL. WE HAVE TWO
INDIVIDUALS HERE TO SPEAK TO US
ON HOMELESSNESS DATA. FIRST WE
HAVE MARGOT KUCHEL, UH, M Dð,
PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AT U. èC
S¼ F, DIRECTOR OF SF CENTER FOR
VULNERABLE POPULATIONS AND U èC
S¼ F, UH, BE OFF HOMELESSNESS
AND HOUSING INITIATIVE. AND THEN
WE HAVE, UH, HAVING BOTH. WE
HAVE ALL SORRY. TWO ADDITIONAL
SPOKESPERSONS. WE HAVE, UH
DASHI. OK? VERY CLOSE DUCK.
CHICER, UH, WITH KRAMER, DEPUTY
SECRETARY OF HOMELESSNESS,
BUSINESS, CONSUMER SERVICES AND
HOUSING AGENCY AND ALSO ADDED,
WE HAVE SYDNEY BENNETT, DIRECTOR
OF RESEARCH, UH, WHO WILL ALSO
PRESENT UH, WE APPRECIATE YOU
BEING HERE AND WE CAN GO AHEAD
AND BEGIN. GREAT THANK YOU. UM
GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIR WARD, CHAIR
CORK, SILVA AND MEMBERS OF THE
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES ON HOUSING
AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. UM
AND THE ASSEMBLY BUDGET
COMMITTEE NUMBER FIVE. I'M
MARGOT COUCH. PROFESSOR OF
MEDICINE AT U èC S¼ F, WHERE I
DIRECT THE U èC S¼ F CENTER FOR
VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. THE U
èC S¼ F BE EF HOMELESSNESS AND
HOUSING INITIATIVE. I'M A
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN WHO JUST
RAN HERE FROM CLINIC IN SAN
FRANCISCO THIS MORNING AND AN N
I HÌ FUNDED RESEARCHER. UM, WHO
STUDIES HOMELESSNESS. UM IN 2023
, ACCORDING TO OUR POINT IN TIME
COUNTS MORE THAN 100 AND 81,000.
CALIFORNIANS WERE EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS AND A SINGLE NIGHT.
THIS WAS AS UM CHAIR WARD
MENTIONED A 6% INCREASE FROM
2022. WHILE CALIFORNIA IS HOME
TO 12% OF THE NATION'S
POPULATION. IT'S HOME TO 28% OF
THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS
AND HALF OF THOSE EXPERIENCING
UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS. THE
PIT IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN
MIND IS JUST A SNAPSHOT OF WHO
IS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS ON
ONE NIGHT, AND IT PROVIDES
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON YEAR
OVER YEAR CHANGES CALIFORNIA'S
HOMELESSNESS DATA INTEGRATION
SYSTEM HÌ Dð, I S¼ COMPILES DATA
FROM ALL OF THE HOMELESS
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
THROUGHOUT THE AND GIVES US A
GOOD SENSE OF HOW MANY UNIQUE
PEOPLE INTERACT WITH HOMELESS
SERVICES EACH YEAR. HÌ G, I S¼
YOU SHOULD THINK OF AS PROVIDING
A COMPLIMENTARY PICTURE OF
HOMELESSNESS TO THE PIT COUNTS.
AT LEAST IT HAS SORT OF A WHOLE
YEAR'S WORTH OF DATA, AND OUR
ESTIMATES ARE ABOUT TWICE THE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE APPEAR IN HD. I
S OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR AS
APPEAR IN ANY POINT IN TIME
COUNT, BUT NO MATTER WHICH
NUMBER YOU RELY ON HOMELESSNESS
IS CLEARLY A CRISIS. AS THE
STATE'S POPULATION INCREASES.
MANY ARE GOING TO ASK THE
QUESTION. WHY IS THERE SO MUCH
HOMELESSNESS HERE? THE AMOUNT OF
HOMELESSNESS IN A REGION IS VERY
CLOSELY RELATED TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF DEEPLY
AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AND ON THAT
MEASURE, CALIFORNIA IS FAILING.
WE HAVE ONLY 24 UNITS OF HOUSING
THAT ARE AVAILABLE AND
AFFORDABLE FOR EVERY 100,
EXTREMELY LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS
OR THOSE MAKING LESS THAN 30% OF
THE AREA. MEDIAN INCOME. PUTTING
IT ANOTHER WAY. WHERE 1 MILLION
UNITS SHORT OF WHERE WE NEED TO
BE. OUR CRISIS IS REALLY FUELED
BY THAT MISMATCH. WE AT THE B H.
I CONDUCTED THE CALIFORNIA
STATEWIDE STUDY OF PEOPLE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, WHICH
IS THE LARGEST REPRESENTATIVE
STUDY OF HOMELESSNESS SINCE THE
19 NINETIES. WE TALKED TO 3200
PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS
THROUGHOUT THE STATE, AND WE
FOUND THAT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA ARE
CALIFORNIANS NINE AND 10 LOST
THEIR STABLE HOUSING IN THE
STATE. AND A MUCH HIGHER
PROPORTION HAD BEEN BORN IN THE
STATE THAN STATES RESIDENTS.
OVERALL THREE OUT OF FOUR WERE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN THE
SAME COUNTY, WHERE THEY HAD LOST
THEIR HOUSING. THE RISK OF
HOMELESSNESS DOES NOT FALL
EQUALLY ACROSS POPULATIONS. NO
MATTER WHETHER YOU'RE LOOKING AT
THE PIT H D, I S OR OUR STUDY
CASPER. IT IS CLEAR.
HOMELESSNESS DISPROPORTIONATELY
IMPACTS. CALIFORNIANS OF COLORS
BLACK AND NATIVE AMERICAN, UH,
CALIFORNIANS ARE OVER,
REPRESENTED EACH BY ABOUT FOUR
FOLD IN THE STATES HOMELESS
POPULATION COMPARED TO THEIR
NUMBERS IN THE POPULATION
OVERALL. AND DATA FROM RECENT
POINT IN TIME COUNT SUGGEST AN
ALARMING RISE IN HOMELESSNESS IN
THE LATIN X POPULATION FROM 20
TO 23, THOSE IDENTIFYING AS
HISPANIC OR LATIN X EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS ROSE BY 29% WHICH
IS ABOUT TWICE A PERCENTAGE OF
THE OVERALL STATE INCREASE IN
HOMELESSNESS. PEOPLE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN
CALIFORNIA ARE DESPERATELY POOR
TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF THAT IN
THE SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO BECOMING
HOMELESS CALIFORNIANS
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS
REPORTED A MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD
INCOME OF ONLY $960 A MONTH.
ABOUT A THIRD OF THEM ENTERED
DIRECTLY FROM A HOUSING
ARRANGEMENT FROM WHICH THEY HAD
LEGAL RIGHTS. SO A TENANCY RENT,
ETCETERA, UM, A LEASEHOLDER, UM,
THEY HAD A MEDIAN INCOME OF
$1400. BUT WE'RE SPENDING A
MEDIAN OF $700 ON HOUSING. SO
TWO THINGS ABOUT THAT. IF YOUR
HOUSEHOLD MAKES $1400 A MONTH,
YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY SUSTAINED
$700 A MONTH. BUT ALSO IF YOU
LOSE THAT HOUSING, THERE'S NO
PLACE IN OUR STATE. YOU CAN RE
ENTER THE RENTAL MARKET FOR HIS
LOW AS $700 A MONTH. PEOPLE HAD
VERY LITTLE WARNING PRIOR TO
BECOMING HOMELESS LEASEHOLDERS
HAD A MEDIAN OF ONLY 10 DAYS AND
THE LARGER GROUP OF ABOUT 49%
WHO ENTERED FROM A DOUBLED UP
SITUATION HAD WARNING OF ONE DAY
THINGS SORT OF FELL APART AND
THEY BECAME HOMELESS. BUT NEARLY
ONE OUT OF FIVE CALIFORNIANS
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS
ENTERED HOMELESSNESS DIRECTLY
FROM AN INSTITUTIONAL SETTING.
AND THOSE ARE MOSTLY PROLONGED
JAIL STAYS OR PRISON STAYS. THIS
LIKELY UNDERESTIMATES THE IMPACT
BECAUSE WE SAW MUCH HIGHER
PROPORTION WHO HAD BEEN RELEASED
FROM PRISON IN THE PRIOR SIX
MONTHS HAD A SHORT STAY IN
TEMPORARY HOUSING, BUT DIDN'T
HAVE A LONG ENOUGH RUNWAY TO
PREVENT THEIR HOMELESSNESS. AS A
PHYSICIAN, I CAN TELL YOU THAT
HOMELESSNESS IS ABSOLUTELY
DEVASTATING TO HEALTH. 45% OF
HOMELESS ADULTS IN CALIFORNIA
REPORTED THEIR HEALTH IS FAIR OR
POOR. THAT COMPARES TO ABOUT 17%
ACROSS THE U. S. WHO REPORT THAT
60% REPORTED HAVING A CHRONIC
HEALTH CONDITION AND ONE OF
THREE REPORTED HAVING A
DIFFICULTY WITH AN ACTIVITY OF
DAILY LIVING LIKE DRESSING OR
TOILET NG OR GETTING UP AND
DOWN. FOR THOSE WHO WERE WOMEN
UNDER THE AGE OF 45 26% REPORTED
THAT THEY HAD BEEN PREGNANT
DURING THIS EPISODE OF
HOMELESSNESS. IN THE PAST SIX
MONTHS, 38% HAD VISITED ONE OF
OUR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS AND
21% HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED FOR
PHYSICAL HEALTH CONDITION.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROBLEMS,
INCLUDING SUBSTANCE USE AND
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE BI
DIRECTIONALLY RELATED TO
HOMELESSNESS. THAT MEANS THAT
THESE CONDITIONS INCREASE THE
RISK THAT A PERSON BECOMES
HOMELESS, BUT HOMELESSNESS
DRAMATICALLY WORSENS THESE
CONDITIONS. WE FOUND THAT OVER A
THIRD OF ADULTS EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS USED AN ILLICIT
DRUG THREE TIMES A WEEK OR MORE
DURING THEIR EPISODE, THIS WAS
PRIMARILY DRIVEN BY
METHAMPHETAMINE USE. UM 9%
REPORTED HEAVY EPISODIC ALCOHOL
USE OR BINGE DRINKING AT LEAST
WEEKLY. SO 40% REPORTED ONE OF
THESE TWO AND OF THOSE WHO
REPORTED EITHER REGULAR DRUG USE
OR HEAVY, EPISODIC ALCOHOL USE.
26% TOLD US THAT THEY HAD
ATTEMPTED AND TRIED TO GET
TREATMENT DURING THIS EPISODE OF
HOMELESSNESS, BUT HAD BEEN
UNABLE TO FIND ANY ALMOST HALF
OR 48% OF ADULTS IN OUR STUDY
HAD ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FOR
CONDITIONS THEY EITHER WERE
REGULAR USER OF ILLICIT DRUGS.
HEAVY ALCOHOL USE HAD A RECENT
PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALIZATION OR
ONE OF THE 12% WHO REPORTED
HAVING ONGOING HALLUCINATIONS.
THESE ARE FOLKS WHO WE THINK
WOULD LIKELY REQUIRE SUPPORTIVE
SERVICES ONCE THEY REENTERED
HOUSING IN ORDER TO THRIVE. THE
HOMELESS POPULATION IS AGING.
ACCORDING TO H D I S DATA THE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE OVER. 55 WHO
RECEIVED HOMELESS SERVICES
DOUBLED BETWEEN 2017 AND 2022.
CASPER WE FOUND THAT NEARLY HALF
OF ALL SINGLE ADULTS
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN OUR
STATE WERE AGED 50 OLDER. AND
AMONG THOSE WHO ARE 50 OLDER 41%
HAD NEVER BEEN HOMELESS, NOT
EVEN FOR A NIGHT BEFORE THEY
REACHED THE AGE OF 50. THESE
FINDINGS ARE CONSISTENT WITH
RESEARCH AND OLDER ADULTS
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS THAT
WE'VE BEEN CONDUCTING FOR YEARS
IN OAKLAND, THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE
HOMELESSNESS FOR FIRST TIME
AFTER AGE 50 BECAME HOMELESS
AFTER A DISCRETE EVENT, THE
DEATH OF A SPOUSE LOSS OF A JOB
AND ILLNESS. AND AN ECONOMIC
SHOCK THAT THEY COULD NOT BEAR.
BUT WHETHER FIRST HOMELESS
BEFORE AFTER THE AGE OF 50,
THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS
AND OTHER AGE HAVE A HIGH
PREVALENCE OF CONDITIONS
ASSOCIATED WITH AGING LIKE
COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND
FUNCTIONAL PROBLEMS. PEOPLE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WANT
TO BE HOUSED WHEN WE ASKED
PEOPLE WHAT KEEPS THEM FROM
HOUSING. THE SINGLE BIGGEST
BARRIER WAS THE COST OF HOUSING.
89% NOTED THAT THIS WAS WHAT WAS
KEEPING THEM FROM BEING HOUSED.
BUT OTHER KEY BARRIERS INCLUDE
FACING DISCRIMINATION IN THE
RENTAL HOUSING MARKET, EVICTION
AND POOR CREDIT HISTORIES AND
HISTORIES OF THE CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEM. FEW WHO
EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS
REPORTED GETTING HELP FINDING
PERMANENT HOUSING. DURING THIS
EPISODE, ONLY A QUARTER REPORTED
HAVING SOMEONE WORK WITH THEM AT
LEAST ONCE A MONTH OR MORE IN
THE PRIOR SIX MONTHS. SO WHAT DO
WE RECOMMEND AT ITS HEART?
HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING
PROBLEM. THAT'S HOUSING HAS TO
BE AT THE CORE OF OUR RESPONSES
ARE DRAMATIC SHORTAGE OF DEEPLY
AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS WHAT'S
DRIVING OUR CRISIS. THE HOMELESS
SERVICE SYSTEM IS MANAGING THIS
CRISIS THAT THEY DIDN'T CREATE
AND REALLY CAN'T SOLVE WITHOUT
SUSTAINED INVESTMENTS IN
INCREASING THE SUPPLY OF DEEPLY
AFFORDABLE HOUSING. TO END
HOMELESSNESS. WE NEED TO FOCUS
ALSO ON STEMMING INFLOWS INTO
HOMELESSNESS, USING EVERY TOOL
IN OUR TOOL KIT. ONE PLACE TO
FOCUS WOULD BE THOSE
INSTITUTIONAL EXITS FROM PEOPLE
LEAVING PROLONGED JAILS AND
PRISONS DAYS BECAUSE WE KNOW
WHERE THOSE FOLKS ARE, AND WE
KNOW THAT WE'RE DISCHARGING THEM
INTO HOMELESSNESS. OTHER
PREVENTION ACTIVITIES,
PREVENTING EVICTIONS, PROVIDING
FLEXIBLE FUNDING TO CATCH PEOPLE
WHO ARE AT HIGH RISK OF
HOMELESSNESS AND BEHIND IN THEIR
RENT CAN PLAY A REALLY IMPORTANT
ROLE, BUT THOSE NEED TO BE
TARGETED TO THOSE AT THE HIGHEST
RISK. WELL, HAVING A DISABLING
CONDITION, SO THIS IS A
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER OR MENTAL
HEALTH CONDITION, PLACE PEOPLE
AT HIGHER RISK OF HOMELESSNESS.
HOUSING IS STILL THE ANSWER TO
RESOLVE THEIR HOMELESSNESS. THE
STATE MUST REMAIN COMMITTED TO
THE EVIDENCE BASED WAYS TO END
HOMELESSNESS. RESEARCH HAS
CONSISTENTLY SUPPORTED THE USE
OF HOUSING FIRST APPROACH IS AS
A MEANS TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN
EXITS FROM HOMELESSNESS AND TO
KEEP PEOPLE HOUSED. HOUSING
FIRST IS A FLEXIBLE APPROACH
THAT PRIORITIZES GETTING PEOPLE
HOUSED WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS.
BUT HOUSING FIRST DOES NOT MEAN
HOUSING ONLY FOR THOSE WITH
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONDITIONS
LIKE THAT 48% THAT I MENTIONED.
UM THE HOUSING SUBSIDIES SHOULD
BE PAIRED WITH SUPPORTIVE
SERVICES THAT ARE OFFERED ON A
VOLUNTARY BASIS. THESE SUPPORTED
SERVICES SHOULD BE GUIDED BY
EVIDENCE AND ROBUST ENOUGH TO
MATCH THE LEVEL OF NEED. OUR
TEAM CONDUCTED A STUDY IN SANTA
CLARA COUNTY, WHICH ENROLLS
CHRONICALLY HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS
WITH THE HIGHEST AND MOST SEVERE
COMPLEXITY OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
ISSUES. WE ENROLLED THEM WHEN
THEY PRESENTED ITS SYSTEMS, SO
THEY WEREN'T EXPECTING US, AND
WE ASKED THEM IF THEY WANTED A
5050 CHANCE OF BEING HOUSED OF
THE 400 PEOPLE. WE APPROACHED,
ONE SAID NO. AT THE TIME WE
FLIPPED A DICE AND DECIDED WHO
WAS GOING TO GET OUR WAREHOUSING
SPOTS AND 91% OF THESE
INDIVIDUALS WERE SUCCESSFULLY
HOUSED. IT TOOK AN AVERAGE OF
TWO MONTHS FROM THE DAY WE MET
THEM AT THE JAILHOUSE DOORS ARE
IN THE PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY
DEPARTMENT UNTIL THEY MOVED INTO
HOUSING, AND WE FOLLOWED THEM
FOR SEVEN YEARS AND ONCE HOUSED
THEY STATE HOUSE. FOR AN AVERAGE
OF 90% OF NIGHTS. TO BE CLEAR.
NOT EVERYONE WHO EXPERIENCES
HOMELESSNESS REQUIRES SUPPORTIVE
SERVICES. BY OUR BEST ESTIMATES,
ABOUT HALF REQUIRE THESE MANY
SIMPLY NEED ACCESS TO HOUSING
THAT THEY CAN AFFORD. BUT ALL
WHO ARE HOMELESS REQUIRE HOUSING
TO END THEIR HOMELESSNESS.
HOMELESSNESS IS A CRISIS IN OUR
STATE, BUT WE HAVE ANSWERS TO
THIS CRISIS. HOUSING IS AND WILL
CONTINUE TO BE THE SOLUTION.
SOLVING THIS WILL REQUIRE A
SUSTAINED FOCUS ON PROVEN
EVIDENCE BASED SOLUTIONS,
PREVENTING INFLOWS MAINTAINING
COMMITMENT TO HOUSING FIRST,
BOLSTERING RESOURCES TO PROVIDE
SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND, MOST
IMPORTANTLY, DOUBLING DOWN ON
OUR EFFORTS TO PRESERVE AND
PRODUCE THE DEEPLY AFFORDABLE
HOUSING THAT CALIFORNIANS NEED.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT
WELCOME. PLEASE INTRODUCE
YOURSELF AGAIN. THANK YOU.
SILVER AND SHARE WARD. THANK YOU
FOR HAVING US. MY NAME IS DR
MICHAEL KRAMER AND THE DEPUTY
SECRETARY AD AND THE AGENCY
CALLED THE BUSINESS CONSUMER
SERVICES AND HOUSING AGENCY. AND
I'M HERE TODAY WITH THE DIRECTOR
OF RESEARCH FROM CAL. I CH SO
VERY QUICKLY WITHIN B. C. S H,
AS IT'S CALLED. WE HAVE HOUSING
AND WE HAVE HOMELESSNESS. SO H C
D, AS YOU KNOW, IS ONE OF THE
GROUPS THAT PROVIDES A LOT OF
PRODUCTION OF HOUSING. WHAT
MARGO MENTIONED WHICH IS VERY
IMPORTANT, BUT ALSO WITHIN THE
AGENCY'S KELLY CH. SO I'M GOING
TO GIVE SOME OPENING REMARKS AND
REALLY, THE BULK OF THE
PRESENTATION IS GOING TO BE ON
HD. I S WHICH MARGO ACTUALLY
ALLUDED TO REALLY TALK ABOUT HOW
HD EYES IS CAPTURING
INFORMATION. FROM ALL THE DOCS.
OH COOL. UM AND REALLY TELLING
US WHAT THE LOCALS ARE DOING
WITH THE DATA AND SYDNEY WILL
REALLY GO INTO MORE DETAIL
BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO SYDNEY
JUST WANTED TO MENTION A FEW
THINGS ONE PURSUANT TO THE
ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATURES
WORK ON LAST YEAR'S BUDGET ACT.
CAL I C H IS IN THE MIDST OF
TRANSITIONING ITS GRANTS TO H C
D. SO THANK YOU. LEGISLATURE FOR
SUPPORTING THAT, AND THAT
TRANSITION IS DUE TO TAKE EFFECT
JULY OF THIS YEAR. AND THEN
SECOND IF ANYONE AFTER THIS
PRESENTATION IS INTERESTED IN
LEARNING MORE EVEN MORE HD, I S
AT THE NEXT KELLY CH COUNCIL
MEETING. SYDNEY WILL BE
PRESENTING A REALLY DRILL DOWN
ON HD IDEAS. SO WE WILL LET YOUR
STAFF KNOW SO THAT YOU CAN TUNE
IN AND LEARN TO THAT NEXT SLIDE,
PLEASE. AND JUST A QUICK
OVERVIEW. WE ARE REALLY GOING TO
GIVE YOU TO THE DATA, BUT, UM
WELL, ONE SYDNEY IS DONE WITH
THE DATA. I'M GOING TO QUICKLY
GIVE SOME QUICK POINTS OF INFO
ON THE ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION
FUND AND HAVE GRANTS NEXT SLIDE.
BOTH CHAIR WARD AND MARGOT
MENTIONED THIS, BUT JUST A BIT
OF CONTEXT, YOU SAID CHAIR WARD.
THE NATIONAL NUMBERS JUMPED 12%
AND A GOOD BIT OF NEWS, CITING
FOR US BECAUSE I THINK THAT
THESE ARE THE INVESTMENTS THE
LEGISLATURE AND ADMINISTRATION
HAVE BEEN DOING EVEN THOUGH IT
WAS AN INCREASE IN CALIFORNIA TO
THE 6% INCREASE, ROUGHLY
COMPARED TO THE NATIONAL JUMPS,
SO WE SHOULD KEEP WATCHING THAT.
AS MARGO SAID, THIS IS REALLY
ABOUT THE YEAR OF A YEAR KIND OF
MEASURING OF WHERE WE ARE AND
THE HDZ STATUS LONGITUDINAL HOW
MANY PEOPLE ARE BEING SERVED
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR? AND WITH
THAT, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER
TO SYDNEY TO REALLY GIVE YOU
SOME IN DEPTH STUDY ON THE THANK
YOU. CHAIR QUIRK-SILVA AND SHARE
AWARD FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO
PRESENT TODAY. I'M SYDNEY
BENNETT, THE DIRECTOR OF
RESEARCH AT THE CALIFORNIA
INTERAGENCY COUNCIL AND
HOMELESSNESS AND I'LL BE TALKING
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR
HOMELESSNESS DATA INTEGRATION
SYSTEM OR YOU'LL HEAR US
TALKING. TALK ABOUT IT AS HD. I
S FOR SHORT BECAUSE IT'S A BIT
OF A MOUTHFUL. NEXT NEXT SLIDE,
PLEASE. SP 1380 CREATED THE
COUNCIL AND ESTABLISHED SEVERAL
STATUTORY GOALS FOR CAL. I SEE
IT'S JUST WORK, ONE OF WHICH WAS
THE CREATION OF THE HDS SYSTEM,
A CENTRALIZED DATABASE OF
HOMELESSNESS DATA IN CALIFORNIA.
CAL. I C H FIRST LAUNCHED HD. I
S IN 2021, CREATING THE MOST
COMPREHENSIVE DATA SYSTEM
AVAILABLE TO MEASURE THE
PROVISION OF HOMELESSNESS
SERVICES AND THE OUTCOMES
ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE SERVICES.
ONE POWERFUL USE OF A SHARES
DATA IS FOR TRACKING WHO IS
SERVED BY STATE FUNDED
HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS BEGINNING
IN 2023, CAL, I CH STARTED
IMPLEMENTING ASSEMBLY BILL 977,
WHICH REQUIRES STATE FUNDED
HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS TO ENTER
DATA INTO THEIR LOCAL HOMELESS
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM,
OR H M. I S AND THEN THAT DATA
GETS CENTRALIZED IN OUR STATE'S
H D I S SYSTEM. WE THINK
ASSEMBLYMEMBER'S GABRIEL FOR HIS
WORK, AUTHORING A B 977. A
SECOND IMPORTANT USE OF ASIA S
DATA, WHICH IS PRIMARILY WHAT
I'LL BE SPEAKING ABOUT TODAY IS
FOR TRACKING THE STATE AND LOCAL
JURISDICTIONS PROGRESS TOWARDS
PREVENTING AND ENDING
HOMELESSNESS IN THEIR
COMMUNITIES. I'LL BE SHARING THE
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES
CALAIS CH HAS DEVELOPED PURSUANT
TO A B 140. WHICH SERVED THIS
PURPOSE A BIT LATER IN THE
PRESENTATION. NEXT SLIDE. BEFORE
DIVING INTO THE DATA FROM H D. I
S I WANTED TO PROVIDE A SHORT
OVERVIEW OF WHAT H D I S IS EACH
CONTINUUM OF CARE AND CALIFORNIA
OF WHICH THERE ARE 44 MAINTAINS
AN H M I S SYSTEM. THIS IS A
REQUIREMENT FOR THEIR FEDERAL
FUNDING FROM HUD. INTO THEIR H
MEDIA SYSTEM. ALL OF THE SERVICE
PROVIDERS WHO RECEIVED THAT
FUNDING ENTER STANDARDIZED DATA
FIELDS. HMM. I S SYSTEMS ONLY
INCLUDE DATA ON PEOPLE WHO
ACCESS SERVICES. COC IS THEN
SUBMIT DATA FROM THEIR LOCAL H
M. I S SYSTEM INTO HD. A YES ON
A QUARTERLY BASIS, SO FOUR TIMES
A YEAR, KALESIJA VALIDATES AND
PROCESSES THAT DATA TO ENSURE
CONSISTENCY AND QUALITY AND A
STATEWIDE DATA SET. BECAUSE WE
COLLECT DATA FROM EACH COC IN
THE STATE. WE'RE ABLE TO CREATE
A RECORD OF SOMEONE'S
INTERACTIONS WITH THE
HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE SERVICES
ACROSS ALL CONTINUUM OF CARE IN
THE STATE AND HAVE THAT
LONGITUDINAL DATA SET. THIS
PROCESS RESULTS IN DATA ON A
WIDE RANGE OF SERVICE ACCESS BY
PEOPLE EXPERIENCING OR AT RISK
OF HOMELESSNESS FROM EMERGENCY
SHELTER TO PREVENTION PROGRAMS
TO STREET OUTREACH TO PERMANENT
HOUSING INTERVENTIONS. NEXT
SLIDE, PLEASE. H D I S CONTAINS
OVER 300 DATA FIELDS, WHICH FALL
INTO THREE BROAD CATEGORIES JUST
TO PROVIDE A SENSE OF SOME OF
THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE. THE
FIRST AREA IS THAT THERE IS DATA
ON THE PROJECTS THAT SERVE
PEOPLE EXPERIENCING OR AT RISK
OF HOMELESSNESS. SO THAT
INCLUDES THE TYPE OF PROJECT OR
SERVICES. A PROJECT PROVIDES
LOCATION IN THE STATE. FUNDING
SOURCES SUCH AS THE GRANT
PROGRAMS TIED TO THAT PROJECT
AND FOR OUR RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS
, INFORMATION ON HOW MANY BEDS
ARE AVAILABLE. THERE'S ALSO DATA
ABOUT THE PEOPLE ACCESSING
SERVICES AND COMMUNITY AND THEIR
HOUSING NEEDS. SO THAT INCLUDES
DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SUCH AS
AGE, RACE AND ETHNICITY, GENDER
DISABILITY STATUS. AND THEN
THIRD. WE HAVE DATA ON EACH IN
ROMAN AND SERVICES A PERSON
PARTAKES IN IN THE COURSE OF
THEIR EXPERIENCE OF HOMELESSNESS
, OR EVEN AFTER THAT
HOMELESSNESS IS RESOLVED IN THE
CASE OF PERMANENT HOUSING
PROGRAMS SO WE CAN SEE THE TYPES
OF SERVICE PROVIDED THE TIME
PERIOD OF SOMEONE'S
PARTICIPATION AND WHERE THEY
WERE LIVING BEFORE AND AFTER.
THAT ENROLLMENT. NEXT SLIDE. NOW
THAT I'VE PROVIDED A SHORT
OVERVIEW OF THE HDS SYSTEM, I
WANTED TO SHARE MORE ABOUT THE
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES THAT
WE USE TO TRACK HOW EFFECTIVELY
WE ARE PREVENTING AND ENDING
HOMELESSNESS IN CALIFORNIA. ON
THIS SIDE, YOU'LL SEE EACH
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURE. I'LL
ACTUALLY WALK THROUGH THEM IN A
MINUTE WITH THE DATA, BUT JUST
AS A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT, THE
CALIFORNIA SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
MEASURES ARE A SERIES OF METRICS
THAT WERE DEVELOPED BY CALAIS,
CH. TO HELP THE STATE AND LOCAL
JURISDICTIONS ASSESS PROGRESS
TOWARDS PREVENTING AND ENDING
HOMELESSNESS. THE ASSISTANT
PERFORMANCE MEASURES ARE SIMILAR
TO ONES DEVELOPED BY THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT BY HUD. BUT THE
CALIFORNIA S PMS ARE MUCH MORE
EXPANSIVE. THEY LOOK AT
ENROLLMENTS IN ALL TYPES OF
PROJECTS, INSTEAD OF PRIMARILY
FOCUSING ON SHELTER AND HOUSING
PROJECTS, ENSURING THAT THESE
PERFORMANCE MEASURES CAPTURE THE
FULL RANGE OF PEOPLE ACCESSING
SERVICES, WHETHER THEY'RE
UNSHELTERED OR SHELTERED. CAL I
STAGE TRACKS THESE PERFORMANCE
MEASURES ON A QUARTERLY BASIS,
AND WE PROVIDE DATA BACK TO EACH
CONTINUUM OF CARE. QUARTERLY TO
HELP HOLD JURISDICTIONS
ACCOUNTABLE FOR IMPROVING THE
OUTCOMES IN THEIR LOCAL
COMMUNITY. NEXT SLIDE. HERE
YOU'LL SEE DATA FOR EACH OF THE
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES FROM
THE PAST TWO FISCAL YEARS FROM
2020 TO 20 FROM 21 TO 22 AND
2022 TO 2023. THE FIRST
CALIFORNIA SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
MEASURE IS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE
WHO ACCESS SERVICES WHILE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AS DR
CRUCIAL MENTIONED, THAT'S NOT
EVERYONE WHO EXPERIENCED
HOMELESSNESS AS NOT ALL
CALIFORNIANS, YOU'RE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS ACCESS
SERVICES, BUT IT IS A GOOD
MEASURE OF OUR REACH. WE SEE
THAT MEASURE ONE INCREASES IN
THAT TIME PERIOD IN A LARGE PART
DUE TO INCREASED INVESTMENTS IN
HOMELESSNESS SERVICES MADE BY
THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE
LEGISLATURE. MEASURE TWO LOOKS
AT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO
ACCESS SERVICES WHILE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS FOR
THE FIRST TIME OVER THE PAST TWO
YEARS. AND THAT'S MEASURED BY
WHETHER SOMEONE IS RETURNING TO
SERVICES AGAIN. IN THAT TIME
FRAME. WE AGAIN SEE THIS IN LINE
WITH THE OTHER MEASURES
INCREASING AS SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL PROVISIONS
INCREASES. MEASURE THREE
CAPTURES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE
EXITING TO PERMANENT HOUSING, AS
WE KNOW HOUSING IS THE END TO
SOMEONE'S HOMELESSNESS. SO THIS
IS A VERY IMPORTANT MEASURE THAT
WE SEE INCREASE OVER THIS TIME
FRAME. MEASURE FOUR LOOKS AT THE
LENGTH OF TIME A PERSON IS
HOMELESS WHILE ACCESSING
SERVICES, SO THIS ISN'T
NECESSARILY THEIR WHOLE EPISODE
OF HOMELESSNESS. IF THEY AREN'T
ACCESSING SERVICES CONSISTENTLY,
BUT IT DOES CAPTURE HOW LONG
IT'S TAKING WHILE ACCESSING
SERVICES BEFORE A PLACEMENT INTO
PERMANENT HOUSING. MEASURE FIVE
LOOKS AT THE NUMBER OF THE
PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO
RETURNED TO HOMELESSNESS WITHIN
SIX MONTHS OF EXITING TO
PERMANENT HOUSING. THIS IS A KEY
MEASURE TO ENSURE PLACEMENTS
INTO PERMANENT HOUSING ARE LONG
LASTING AND EFFECTIVE. AND THEN
LAST MEASURE, SIX LOOKS AT THE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE
SUCCESSFULLY PLACED INTO SHELTER
OR PERMANENT HOUSING FROM STREET
OUTREACH PROGRAMS. WE SEE THIS
NUMBER INCREASING IN LARGE PART
TO STATE DUE TO STATE
INVESTMENTS, SUCH AS THAT YOUR F
PROGRAM THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT
LATER IN THIS PRESENTATION. NEXT
SLIDE. IN ADDITION TO GENERATING
THE CALIFORNIA SYSTEM,
PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR
EVERYONE GIVES IN A GIVEN
CONTINUUM OF CARE AND STATEWIDE.
THE MEASURES ARE ALSO
DISAGGREGATED BY RACE AND
ETHNICITY, GENDER FOR VARIOUS
HOUSEHOLD TYPES AND DIFFERENT
SUB POPULATIONS TO ENSURE THAT
WE HAVE DATA AVAILABLE FOR THOSE
ACCESSING HOMELESSNESS SERVICES
TODAY, WE'LL SHARE DATA FOR
THREE OF THESE POPULATIONS,
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN.
UNACCOMPANIED YOUTH AND
VETERANS. THIS GRAPH SHOWS THE
FIRST MEASURE THE NUMBER OF
PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS
WHILE ACCESSING SERVICES FOR
THESE POPULATIONS TO GIVE YOU A
SENSE OF THEIR SIZE COMPARED TO
EACH OTHER. NEXT SLIDE. WE HAVE
DATA FOR EACH OF THE MEASURES
THAT I JUST WALKED THROUGH FOR
ALL OF THESE SUB POPULATIONS ARE
GOING TO BE WALKING THROUGH THIS
QUITE QUICKLY TODAY, BUT YOU
HAVE THIS AVAILABLE IN YOUR
PACKET AS WELL. SO THE FIRST WE
SEE DATA FOR FAMILIES WITH
CHILDREN. NEXT SIDE. AND THEN
UNACCOMPANIED YOUTH. AND THEN
FINALLY, THIRD SLIDE FOR
VETERANS. HAVING THESE SYSTEM
PERFORMANCE MEASURES TO
SEGREGATED BY THESE POPULATIONS
OF ALLOWS THE STATE AND OUR
LOCAL PARTNERS IN COC CITIES AND
COUNTIES TO DESIGN TARGETED
INTERVENTIONS AND ASSESS THEIR
EFFECTIVENESS IN SERVING
SPECIFIC SUB POPULATIONS. NEXT
SLIDE. THE CALIFORNIA SYSTEM.
PERFORMANCE MEASURES ARE ALSO
DISAGGREGATED BY RACE AND
ETHNICITY. THE GRAPH YOU SEE ON
THE SCREEN COMPARES THE NUMBER
OF PEOPLE ACCESSING HOMELESSNESS
SERVICES TO THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF
CALIFORNIA'S GENERAL POPULATION.
ASK DR CRUCIAL ALSO MENTIONED WE
SEE THAT CALIFORNIANS WHO ARE
BLACK, AFRICAN AMERICAN, OR
AFRICAN AMERICAN, INDIAN, ALASKA
NATIVE OR INDIGENOUS. AND NATIVE
HAWAIIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER ARE
OVERREPRESENTED IN THOSE
ACCESSING HOMELESSNESS SERVICES
AND IN POINT IN TIME COUNT DATA.
WE SEE THEY'RE ALSO OVER
REPRESENTED IN THE POPULATION
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.
ANALYZING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
MEASURES BY RACE AND ETHNICITY
IS A CRITICAL TOOL TO ENSURING
POLICY INTERVENTIONS ADDRESS
HISTORICAL AND SYSTEMIC RACIAL
AND ETHNIC INEQUITIES IN
CALIFORNIA. THIS IS ANOTHER KEY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE STATE'S
SYSTEM, PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND
HIDE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES
, WHICH IS THAT WE DO
DISAGGREGATED BY RACE AND
ETHNICITY AND FOR OTHER SUB
POPULATIONS. NEXT SLIDE. BEFORE
CONCLUDING THE PORTION OF THE
PRESENTATION ON H D. I S I
WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF THE
EXCITING UPCOMING WORK AT CALAIS
STAGE PERTAINING TO H D I S AND
TWO DATA GENERALLY. ONE FOCUS OF
OUR WORK IS EXPANDING THE
SUPPORT AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
WE PROVIDE TO C. O. C S AND
LOCAL JURISDICTIONS AS I
MENTIONED EARLIER H D I S IS AN
AGGREGATION OF H M. I S DATA.
THAT MEANS THAT THE DATA QUALITY
IN HD, I S RELIES ON STRONG DATA
QUALITY IN LOCAL H M. I S
SYSTEMS. WE ARE CURRENTLY
BUILDING REPORTS AND TOOLS TO
SUPPORT OUR CEO CS AND
IDENTIFYING AND CORRECTING DATA
ISSUES. EXPANDING THE TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE WE PROVIDE TO OUR
LOCAL PARTNERS AND ALSO
PROVIDING TOOLS TO HELP THEM
ANALYZE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE SO
THAT THEY HAVE DIFFERENT WAYS TO
SEE THIS CALIFORNIA SYSTEM
PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND ADAPT
THEIR POLICY INTERVENTIONS
ACCORDINGLY. A SECOND FOCUS IS
RESOURCES FOR OUR COUNCIL MEMBER
DEPARTMENTS AND OTHER STATE
PARTNERS AS PART OF OUR A B 977
IMPLEMENTATION. CALAIS CHS
WORKING TO ENSURE DATA ON STATE
FUNDED HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS IS
ACCURATE AND CAN BE TRACKED TO
THAT FUNDING SOURCE THAT'S KEY
AND IDENTIFYING THE PEOPLE
SERVED BY OUR STATE PROGRAMS AND
LOOKING AT THEIR LONG TERM
OUTCOMES. FAR BEYOND THE END OF
THESE PROGRAMS. WE ARE PROVIDING
THE DEPARTMENT ADMINISTERING THE
PROGRAMS THAT ARE PART OF A B
977 WITH DATA DASHBOARDS LATER
THIS SPRING THAT TRACK THEIR
PROGRAM OUTCOMES. WE ALSO
PROVIDE CUSTOM DATA REPORTS UPON
REQUEST FOR OTHER STATE ENTITIES
AND STATE DEPARTMENTS. AND THEN
THIRD BUILDING OFF THE
CALIFORNIA SYSTEM. PERFORMANCE
MEASURES CALYX CH IS DEVELOPING
NEW AND TARGETED METRICS TO
MEASURE PROGRESS TOWARDS
PREVENTING AND ENDING
HOMELESSNESS FOR UNACCOMPANIED
WOMEN, SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE AND THEIR CHILDREN AND
UNACCOMPANIED YOUTH AS PART OF
OUR WORK TO IMPLEMENT SB 914 AND
918. WE ARE BEGINNING A ROBUST
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT THIS
SPRING TO ENSURE THESE MEASURES
ARE RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF
THOSE THREE POPULATIONS,
RECOGNIZING THE DIFFERENCES AND
THEIR SERVICE ACCESS THAN
CALIFORNIANS AS A WHOLE. THANK
YOU AGAIN TO THE COMMITTEE FOR
THE INVITATION TO PRESENT AND I
WILL TURN IT BACK TO DEPUTY
SECRETARY WITH CREMA TO TALK
ABOUT THE EAR F AND HALF GRANT
PROGRAMS. FOR MORE SLIDES. SO
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. JUST WANTED
TO GIVE YOU A QUICK KIND OF
SYNOPSIS ON ENCAMPMENT
RESOLUTION FUND SLATES ON THE
SLIDE. 47.5 MILLION AVAILABLE TO
CITIES OF ANY SIZE AND COUNTIES
AND C O. C. S IN THE BEGINNING
STAGES THESE FOR DEMONSTRATION
PROJECTS, AND NOW THERE'S MUCH
MORE OF AN HOUSING EMPHASIS,
MAKING SURE THERE'S A PATHWAY TO
PERMANENT HOUSING. THERE WILL BE
AN ANNUAL REPORT THAT WILL BE
PUBLISHED LATER THIS SPRING. SO
WE'RE HAPPY TO COME BACK AND
SHARE THAT WITH YOUR STAFF
WANTED TO ALSO POINT OUT IN
ROUNDS TWO AND THREE. THERE'S
700 MILLION. THERE'S AN ACTIVE
ROUND RIGHT NOW AROUND THREE AND
IN THOSE TWO ROUNDS UP TO 50% OF
THE FUNDING WAS SET ASIDE. FOR
PEOPLE LIVING IN ENCAMPMENTS ON
STATE RIGHT AWAY. AND AS I
MENTIONED EARLY ON, THIS IS ONE
OF THOSE GRANTS THAT WILL BE
TRANSFERRING TO H C D. COME JULY
1ST 2024 NEXT SLIDE. I JUST DID
A QUICK ANALYSIS OF THE CALYX CH
TEAM DID TO KIND OF SHOW OF THE
AWARDS THAT HAVE GONE OUT IN THE
THREE ROUNDS. HOW MUCH WENT OUT
TO COUNTIES VERSUS BIG CITIES
WITH THE CITIES OF ANY SIZE, SO
IN TERMS OF PERCENTAGES COUNTIES
HAVE RECEIVED ABOUT 53.34. OF
THE ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION FUND.
BIG CITIES HAVE RECEIVED 13.61%
OF THE AWARDS AND THEN CITIES OF
ANY SIZE HAVE RECEIVED 25.36% OF
THE AVAILABLE FUNDING, WHICH I
THINK SHOWS THAT THIS REALLY
ALLOWED US TO PROVIDE SOME
FUNDING TO THE OTHER CITIES THAT
ARE NOT THE BIG CITY, SO WE ARE
HAPPY TO SEE THAT CAROL I. C H
IS IN THE PROCESS OF REVIEWING
APPLICATIONS REVIEWED FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THE ENCAMPMENT
RESOLUTION AROUND THREE AND
LATER THIS SPRING. THOSE AWARDS
WILL BE ANNOUNCED NEXT FLIGHT,
PLEASE. AND THIS IS AGAIN A
QUICK THING ON HAP. SURROUNDS 1
TO 4. AS YOU ALL KNOW, WAS
FLEXIBLE FUNDING. THERE WAS AN
EMPHASIS IN THE EARLY ROUNDS ON
RAPID DISPERSEMENT. BUT I SYDNEY
MENTIONED BEGINNING IN ROUNDS
THREE AND FOUR. THAT'S WHEN
LOCALS WERE REALLY ASKED AND
MANDATED TO COLLECT THE SYSTEM
PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND THEN
CAL, I CH AND THE DATA TEAM.
WE'RE ALSO SENDING THE DATA BACK
FOR BASELINE DATA BECAUSE THEY
HAVE BASELINE DATA THAT SYDNEY'S
TEAM PROVIDES TO DO THE SYSTEM
PERFORMANCE MEASURE TRACKING AND
REPORTING. THERE WILL BE AN
ANNUAL REPORT FOR HELP AS WELL
PUBLISHED IN THE SPRING, SO WE
ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
THERE'S AN ACTIVE ROUND OPEN
RIGHT NOW, AS ALL OF YOU KNOW
THAT WILL CLOSE MARCH 27TH. WITH
THIS ROUND ROUND FIVE DAYS,
REALLY AN EMPHASIS ON HOUSING,
ACCOUNTABILITY AS WELL AS
REGIONAL COORDINATION, WHICH IS
GOING TO BE MEMORIALIZED WITH AN
MOU TO REALLY MAKE SURE THAT
PEOPLE ARE WORKING ACROSS
JURISDICTIONS AND ACROSS SECTORS
TO THINK ABOUT HOW THEY CAN
SERVE THE PEOPLE IN THEIR
JURISDICTIONS MOST EFFECTIVELY.
UM THIS ALSO WILL BE
TRANSITIONING OVER TO H CITY
COME JULY, 1ST 2024. IT WAS
ACTUALLY A JOINT RELEASE OF THE
NORFOLK GIVEN THAT, UM WHAT WAS
HAPPENING LAST LIGHT, PLEASE.
AND JUST ON THIS, UM CALYX CH
TEAM DID ANALYSIS OF WHAT THE
GRANTEES HAD BEEN SPENDING MONEY
ON. UM THE FIGURES ON THIS SLIDE
REPRESENTING THE MILLIONS HAVE
ELIGIBLE USE CATEGORIES. THE
CALAIS CH TEAM EXCLUDED
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
COORDINATION, STRATEGIC PLANNING
AND REALLY FOCUSED ON SPENDING
ACTIVITY THAT WOULD DIRECTLY
PROVIDE INTERIM AND PERMANENT
HOUSING FOR THE IN HOUSE
NEIGHBORS. ACROSS ALL AROUND
WHAT YOU SEE IS THE BIG CITIES
RECEIVED THE LARGEST ALLOCATIONS
. BUT WHEN YOU SEE WHAT THEY'RE
SPENDING THEIR MONEY ON COUNTIES
, INTERESTINGLY INVESTED MOST OF
THEIR HAVE IN PERMANENT HOUSING.
THE EXCEPTION IS RENTAL
SUBSIDIES. WHERE YOU SEE COC IS
INVESTING MORE OF THEIR HELP
ALLOCATION. BUT THIS COULD BE
THROUGH DESIGN BECAUSE REALLY,
WE WANT THEM TO WORK TOGETHER.
THAT COULD BE A REGIONAL
AGREEMENT THAT'S DRIVING THAT.
YOU ALSO SEE THAT DOCS ARE
INVESTING MORE IN PREVENTION
COMPARED TO COUNTIES AND BIG
CITIES. UM SO THIS IS JUST A
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS. I THOUGHT
THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO
YOU. BUT THERE'S MORE TO COME IN
THE ANNUAL REPORT A QUICK FINAL.
NOT SINCE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT
HD. I S THE FIFTH ROUND DOES
MAKE AVAILABLE H M I S IS AN
ELIGIBLE ACTIVITY REALLY? MAKE
SURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE FUNDS
THEY NEED TO DO COLLECT THE
DATA. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, IN THE
PREVIOUS SLIDE, THERE WILL BE A
KEENER FOCUS ON HOUSING
ACCOUNTABILITY, SO I REALLY WANT
TO THANK THE LEGISLATURE FOR
YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT, AS THIS
TRANSITION OCCURS TO MAKE SURE
THAT THIS TRANSITION IS FULLY
RESOURCED AS WE THINK ABOUT HOW
WE CAN REALLY SUPPORT OUR LOCALS
IN DOING THIS WORK. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU ALL OF YOU VERY
INFORMATIVE, AND I APPRECIATE
THE HANDOUTS WITH THAT. I'LL
OPEN IT UP TO OTHER MEMBERS HERE
. IF THEY HAVE QUESTIONS THEY'D
LIKE TO ASK RIGHT NOW. SUDDENLY
MEMBER CHRIS WARD. THANK YOU
BOTH FOR YOUR COMPREHENSIVE
PRESENTATION. I WAS A LOT MORE
THAT WE COULD GET INTO AS WELL
BECAUSE YOU'RE SO DEEPLY
RESEARCHED INTO THE WORK ON A
DAILY BASIS. DR. MICHELLE I
WANTED TO THANK YOU AND YOUR
TEAM AT UCSF FOR A MONUMENTAL
STUDY, WHICH I THINK IS ROUND
SETTING FOR THE CONVERSATION
THAT NEEDS TO BE HAD FOR ANYBODY
THAT REALLY SPEAKS UP ABOUT THE
ORIGINS OF HOMELESSNESS OR
WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON. ONE OF
THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES THAT ALL
OF US HAVE. I KNOW WE DO AS
PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND RESEARCHERS
AND EVERYBODY IS REALLY BUSTING
SOMEBODY'S MYTHS THAT ARE
DRIVING A LOT OF THE THOUGHT
THAT'S OUT THERE AND THAT CAN
IMPEDE OUR ABILITY TOWARDS
EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS AND TRYING
TO GET THE MATH, RIGHT? I GUESS
FOR WHAT WE NEED TO DO AS WELL.
I HEARD YOU SPEAK AS WELL. AND
UH, AND OTHER PLACES ABOUT ABOUT
THE LENGTH OF THE STUDY. I KNOW
TODAY WAS AN ABBREVIATED VERSION
OF THAT, UM, YOU HAD TALKED
BEFORE, AND THEN YOU MENTIONED
HERE TODAY TO ABOUT YOU KNOW THE
PERCENT OF THOSE THAT ENGAGE IN
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WHO
HAVE COME FROM EITHER JAIL OR
PRISON HAD BEEN IN THE SYSTEM.
UM, THERE'S A FLIP SIDE TO THAT
NUMBER TWO. CAN YOU ARTICULATE
OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN IN A
SYSTEM? UH HUH. AND WHO HAD BEEN
INCARCERATED? HOW MANY OF THOSE
PEOPLE ARE CHALLENGED WITH
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS?
THAT'S A THANK YOU FOR THAT
QUESTION. UM YOU KNOW, WE DON'T
HAVE EXACT DATA ON THAT,
ALTHOUGH WE SHOULD WRITE THAT IS
SOMETHING WHERE WE COULD DO DATA
MATCHES WITH PEOPLE EXITING THE
SYSTEM, BUT IT'S BEEN ESTIMATED
THAT AS MUCH AS A QUARTER OF
PEOPLE EXITING PRISON WILL
RETURN TO HOMELESSNESS
RELATIVELY QUICKLY, AND, UM AND
WE KNOW IN OUR COUNTY JAILS.
IT'S OFTEN HIGHER THAN THAT.
IT'S OFTEN PEOPLE CYCLING
BETWEEN JAILS AND HOMELESSNESS.
SO WE KNOW, FOR INSTANCE, IN
CASPER 30% OF THE PEOPLE WHO
WERE HOMELESS HAD A SHORT TERM
JAIL STAY JUST DURING THEIR
EPISODE OF HOMELESSNESS, BUT, UM
, BUT WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY, BUT
WE THINK IT'S YOU KNOW, COULD BE
COULD BE TALKING ABOUT AS MANY
AS A QUARTER OF PEOPLE EXITING
PRISONS INTO HOMELESSNESS, AT
LEAST IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR. SO
IT'S SUCH AN ENORMOUS RISK
FACTOR BECAUSE OF THE WAYS THAT
IT IMPAIRS PEOPLE'S ABILITY TO
GET HOUSING. YOU KNOW THAT THAT
LANDLORDS ARE ALLOWED TO USE
THAT AGAINST PEOPLE AND DO USE
THAT AGAINST PEOPLE THE WAY THAT
IMPAIRS EMPLOYMENT, THE TRAUMA
THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE
DISCONNECTIONS, THEIR FAMILIES
AND FRIENDS, A LOT OF THE
DRIVERS AGAIN. ONE OF THE
REASONS WHY A NUMBER OF PEOPLE
ARE FINDING THEMSELVES
CHALLENGED AND AT RISK OF
FALLING INTO HOMELESSNESS. AND
SO WE'RE LOOKING ABOUT THINGS
THAT CAUSE HOMELESSNESS AND
THEIR MULTITUDE BY THEIR VERY
NATURE. THIS IS AN AREA THAT
COULD BE CAUSED EFFICIENT THAT
WE'RE FOCUSING ON SPECIAL
PROGRAMS THAT CAN SUPPORT
INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE TRYING TO
SUCCESSFULLY RE ENTER OUR
COMMUNITY. UM, AND THEN YOU YOU
YOU SAID BEFORE, TOO, AND I
REALLY WANT TO TAKE THIS MOMENT
FOR YOU TO MAYBE REPEATED AS
WELL BECAUSE IT'S A DIFFICULT
CONVERSATION WHEN WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT SUBSTANCE USE. YEAH AND
YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT SOME
FEEL AS THOUGH IT'S WORTHY OF US
MAKING PUBLIC INVESTMENT UNLESS
THEY'RE WILLING TO HELP
THEMSELVES FIRST, BUT THERE'S
JUST SO STUCK AND THEY CAN'T AND
THAT YOU'VE SAID ABOUT A THIRD
OF THE INDIVIDUALS ARE USING
PRIMARILY METHAMPHETAMINE AS A
AS A HARD DRUG OF TOYS. WHAT
WHAT SORT OF IS THE REASON WHY
METHAMPHETAMINE IS SO PREVALENT
AMONG THIS POPULATION. I MEAN,
METHAMPHETAMINES HAS REALLY
RISEN TO BECOME THAT MAJOR DRUG
THAT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS OR USING. AND WHEN
WE WHEN WE SPOKE TO THEM, UM AND
YOU KNOW, AS A PHYSICIAN WHEN WE
ADDRESS SUBSTANCE USE, WHICH IS
A BIG PART OF WHAT I DO. UM YOU
ALWAYS WANT TO GET IT SOMEONE'S
MOTIVATION BECAUSE IT'S OFTEN IN
UNDERSTANDING WHAT THEY'RE WHY
THEY'RE USING IT THAT YOU CAN
GET TO THE SOLUTIONS AND WAS
REALLY STRIKING AND OUR
CONVERSATIONS OF PEOPLE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. UM
WAS HOW METHAMPHETAMINES ARE
COPING STRATEGY FOR THEIR
HOMELESS NESS MEDICINE, FETA
MEAN TO KEEP YOU ALERT AND AWAKE
AND THEY KEEP YOU NOT BEING
HUNGRY, AND WHILE THEY CAUSE A
LOT OF HARM WE HEARD AGAIN AND
AGAIN FROM PEOPLE THAT THIS WAS
IN A WAY SOLVING THE PROBLEM, A
PROBLEM OF HOMELESSNESS FOR THEM
WHILE THEY RECOGNIZED THAT IT
WAS ALSO CREATING PROBLEMS ABOUT
A THIRD OF PEOPLE IN OUR STUDY,
WHO USE DRUGS NOTED THAT THEIR
DRUG USE HAD GOTTEN
SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE CITY THERE
STARTED OR GOTTEN WORSE. AFTER
THEY BECAME HOMELESS, SO THAT
THE SORT OF HOMELESSNESS CAME
AND THEN THE DRUG USE ESCALATED
OR BECAME A REAL PROBLEM. AND WE
HEARD AGAIN AND AGAIN FROM
PEOPLE THAT THEY WOULD, UM, BE
CHALLENGED TO ADDRESS THEIR
SUBSTANCE USE WHILE THEY WERE
STILL HOMELESS BECAUSE THEY WERE
REALLY USING IT AS A COPING
STRATEGY. I THINK THE OTHER
THING THAT REALLY WAS STRIKING
FOR US FROM OUR DATA WAS THAT
26? PEOPLE WITH SUBSTANCE USE
PROBLEMS WHO ARE ACTUALLY TRYING
TO GET TREATMENT, WHICH IS
REALLY KIND OF WHAT A LOT OF US
WANT, AND THEY WERE TRYING TO
GET TREATMENT BUT COULDN'T
ACCESS IT. TRANSPORTATION
PROBLEMS WEIGHTLESS THEY HAD NO,
YOU KNOW, WAY TO ACTUALLY GET
INTO THE PROGRAMS OR TO GET THE
TREATMENT THAT THEY THAT THEY
DESIRED. AND SO I THINK THAT'S
IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND AS
WELL. WE KNOW THAT THAT
SUBSTANCES CAN BE A LIFELONG
STRUGGLE THAT PEOPLE SOMETIMES
SEEN A RELAPSE, AND THEN THEY
GET BETTER. AND THEN THEY MIGHT
RELAPSE AGAIN. AND THEN THEY
MIGHT GET BETTER FOR YOU KNOW
THE LONG TERM AND THAT WE CAN'T
REALLY GIVE UP ON PEOPLE WHILE
THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THAT, BUT
WHAT WE HEARD FROM PEOPLE AGAIN
AND AGAIN WAS THAT IT WAS VERY
HARD FOR THEM TO EVEN HAVE THE
MINDSET TO START ADDRESSING IT.
WHILE THEY WERE DEALING WITH
THESE DAILY SURVIVAL NEEDS THE
AMOUNT OF VIOLENCE PEOPLE
EXPERIENCE THE FEAR THAT THEY
EXPERIENCE THE DISRUPTION, THE
NEED TO STAY ALERT AND AWAKE.
WHAT YOU DON'T WANT TO DO IS
CREATE A SITUATION WHERE THERE'S
A HARMFUL DRUG LIKE
METHAMPHETAMINES. THAT ACTUALLY
IS SORT OF SOLVING A PROBLEM
THAT IS CREATED BY THEIR
HOMELESSNESS. THANK YOU, DOCTOR
CASTLE AND I REALLY WANT I
APPRECIATE. UH, YOU, UM
ADDRESSING THAT BECAUSE I THINK
IT'S SOMETHING IMPORTANT THAT
NEEDS TO BE SAID. FIRST OF ALL,
OUR ORIGINS ARE ROOTED IN THE
COST OF HOUSING. YES WE CAN'T
LOSE SIGHT OF, BUT SOME
CONVERSATIONS OUT THERE GET INTO
THIS SPACE. AND SO FOR THOSE
THAT ARE SO FIXATED ON THAT IS
THE ONLY THING THAT THEY WANT
SOLVED. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
TO SORT OF HUMANIZE WHAT
INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE CHOOSING TO
USE SUBSTANCES AND MAYBE THE
MOTIVATIONS AND THE RATIONALE
FOR IT BECAUSE IT'S JUST, YOU
KNOW, YOU DON'T SEE THAT
PERSPECTIVE FOR SOMEBODY THAT'S
NOT SO AFFECTED. WHERE THE
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER. UM I
APPRECIATE THE METRICS THAT HAVE
REALLY EVOLVED AND IMPROVED FOR
HALF. UM THAT IS SOMETHING THAT
WE'VE ALSO BEEN TRYING TO PILOT
AND MAYBE JUST A FEW YEARS AHEAD
OF THE STATE DOWN IN THE SAN
DIEGO CONTINUUM OF CARE WHERE I
WAS THE CHAIR FOR SEVERAL YEARS
REALLY ROOTED IN ANY H S. I
THINK BEST PRACTICES AND I'M
WONDERING FOR YOUR DATA
COLLECTION UP HERE. TWO
QUESTIONS THERE. ONE IS UM, THE
PREVENTION SIDE ARE WE? ARE WE
MEASURING THAT BECAUSE IT SEEMS
LIKE THE MEASURES ARE ONLY FOR
THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS, NOT THOSE THAT
NUMBER NECESSARILY DIVERTING AND
THEN SECONDLY, I WONDERED IF YOU
CAN COMMENT ON GENERALLY HOW ALL
OF OUR CONTINUUM OF CARE HAD
BEEN DOING TO TRY TO ALIGN
AROUND SOME OF THIS DATA SHARING
AND BEST PRACTICES. THANK YOU.
CHAIR WARD ON THE FIRST QUESTION
. THERE IS A FEW ON THE SYSTEM
PERFORMANCE MEASURES THERE WAS
ONE CALLED 1ST 1ST TIME HOMELESS
AND THAT'S CAPTURING PEOPLE WHO
ARE COMING UP IN THE SYSTEM
AFTER TWO YEAR BREAK, AND SO
THAT'S HOW ONE WAY IT'S NOT A
PERFECT WAY OF SEEING WHO'S
EMERGING FOR THE FIRST TIME,
LIKE HAVING A NEW EPISODE OF
HOMELESSNESS THAT INCLUDE
SOMEBODY THAT IS ON THE RISK OF
CORRECT LOSING THEIR THERE ARE
SOME, NOT ALL JURISDICTIONS.
SOME JURISDICTIONS I USED TO
WORK AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN LOS
ANGELES. SO THERE ARE PREVENTION
PROGRAMS THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN
PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO PREVENT
PEOPLE FROM COMING INTO THE
SHELTER, SO YOU DIVERT PEOPLE
FROM SHOULDER BACK TO WHERE THEY
ARE LIVING. SO YOU HAVE LEGAL
AID INVOLVES SOMETIMES, BUT
SOMETIMES IT'S YOU KNOW, JUST AS
A DOCTOR, KUSHELL STUDY SHOWS.
HELPING GRANDMA, WITH SOME BILLS
PROVIDING LIKE A CASH INFUSION
ALLOWS THEM TO STAY AND THAT'S
CAPTURED IN SOME OF THE LOCAL.
BUT NOT ALL LOCALITIES HAVE THAT
KIND OF PROGRAM. I WILL SAY
SEPARATE FROM H D. I S THAT CAL
I C H S A COUNCIL WITH 1814
DEPARTMENTS AND FOUR STATE
AGENCIES IN THIS ESTATE ACTION
PLAN WHERE PREVENTION IS CALLED
OUT AS ONE OF THE ACTION PRONGS,
AND THAT'S ANOTHER WAY WHERE
PREVENTION DATA IS BEING
COLLECTED. BUT I DO KNOW THAT
THIS IS A PLACE EMERGING PLACE
WHERE WE WANT TO DO MORE. AND
SYDNEY. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT
TO ADD ANYTHING ON THAT BECAUSE
IT IS IMPORTANT CHAIR.
QUIRK-SILVA ALSO MENTIONED THE
INFLOW. THE OUTFLOW IT'S I THINK
IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO
GET A HANDLE ON THOSE KINDS OF
NUMBERS. INTERESTED TIME. I
THINK I JUST MIGHT OFFER
COMMENTARY. THAT IS SOMETHING I
WANT TO LOOK A LOT CLOSER AS
WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR
SUBCOMMITTEE REVIEW BECAUSE THE
COST EFFECTIVENESS OF STOPPING
THE INFLOW EXCEEDS OUR ABILITY.
YES, WE NEED MORE HOUSING. WE
NEED TO HELP THOSE THAT ARE
CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS. BUT WE'VE GOT TO
BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THE ENTIRETY
OF THE PIPELINE AND ON UH, YOU
KNOW, I'LL PROBABLY SAVE THIS
FOR OUR APRIL CONVERSATION AS
WELL. BUT SINCE THE DATA IS HERE
TODAY, AGAIN, VERY HAPPY TO SEE
THAT THE HAVE FUNDING HAS BOTH
INCREASED BUT ALSO WE'VE BEEN
MORE ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT OVER
TIME. UM AND I'M YOU KNOW,
CERTAINLY ALARMED BY WHERE OUR
STARTING POINT RIGHT NOW THAT WE
MAY NOT RENEW AN ONGOING
COMMITMENT TO HAVE WHEN IT IS
WORKING WHEN IT IS BECOMING MORE
FLEXIBLE WHEN IT CAN INCLUDE
PREVENTION, ALTHOUGH I THINK NOT
ENOUGH, UM AND I'M WONDERING YOU
HAD MENTIONED ON THE SLIDES THAT
THIS WAS INTENDED TO BE
SOMETHING THAT COULD BE RAPIDLY
DISPERSED, BUT WE STILL HAVE
FUNDS FROM THE 2122 CYCLE AND
MORE SO FROM THE 2223 CYCLE.
WHAT DO YOU SEEING AS SOME
HICCUP POINTS THAT WE'RE NOT
GETTING THESE FUNDS DOWN TO
COMMUNITY AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.
HAVING WORKED AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
. SOMETIMES WHAT HAPPENS IS
LOCALITIES HAVE TO ALSO PROCURE
WITH NONPROFITS. SO SOMETIMES
THAT TAKES TIME CHAIR WARD, BUT
I WILL SAY ON THE EARLIER ROUNDS
OF HAVE HAVE ONE AND TWO. THOSE
HAVE ALMOST BEEN EXHAUSTED. IT'S
REALLY 34. AND NOW FIVE IS THE
NEW ONE. THAT'S LIFE. BUT THAT'S
REALLY WHERE YOU SEE, BECAUSE,
UM, WE CAN'T SOLVE FOR THE
LOCALS, THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS
AND THEY HAVE TO MAKE SURE IT'S
GOING TO NONPROFITS IF THEY WANT
TO DO SOMETHING ON PREVENTION
THAT THEY REALLY WORK WITH A
NONPROFIT THAT KNOWS THAT AND
USES THOSE KINDS OF EVIDENCE, SO
THAT'S REALLY WHERE YOU SEE A
LOT OF THE LAG. BUT UM, YOU KNOW
, THEY NEED TO SOMETIMES THINK
ABOUT HOW THEY CAN MAYBE DO
MASTER LEASING WHICH IS NOT
SORRY, MASTER PROCUREMENT, WHERE
THEY HAVE PEOPLE ON A MASTER
LIST AND THAT THEY DO HAVE DON'T
HAVE TO DO A PROCUREMENT ALL
OVER AGAIN. BUT I KNOW WE WERE
OUT OF TIME, BUT I THINK THAT'S
REALLY ONE OF THE DELAYS AT THE
LOCAL LEVEL. AND THEN ON
ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION IS MY LAST
QUESTION, MADAM CHAIR. UM THE
DATA THAT WE HAVE HERE AT LEAST
SO FAR. AND I KNOW WHERE I'M
LOOKING. I WILL CERTAINLY
RECOVER TO COVER THE REPORTS
THAT ARE COMING OUT THIS SPRING.
UM IS NOT ENCOURAGING, AT LEAST
NOT ON ITS FACE. UM THAT THE
FIRST ROUND OF FUNDING THAT WENT
OUT ALMOST $50 MILLION FROM
READING THE CHART CORRECTLY,
ONLY 15% OF ENCAMPMENTS HAVE
BEEN DEEMED AS RESOLVED. YEAH,
BECAUSE IT'S A THREE YEAR
PROGRAM JUST JUST KIND OF
THINKING OF IT FROM A LOCAL
LEVEL. AND YOU HEARD FROM DR
KUSHELL SOMETIMES ENGAGEMENT AT
THE LOCAL LEVEL WHEN YOU HAVE A
STREET ENGAGEMENT TEAM, AND
SOMETIMES THEY'RE A
MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS WITH
CLINICIANS ON THESE THREE D
OUTREACH TEAMS, IT COULD TAKE
NINE MONTHS TO REALLY KIND OF
THINK ABOUT ENGAGEMENT AND
RECALL WITH THE PEOPLE ON THE
GROUND, AND THEN YOU KNOW, WE'VE
ALL BEEN TALKING ABOUT THERE
NEEDS TO BE AN AVAILABLE AND
APPROPRIATE HOUSING PLACEMENT.
SURE WHETHER INTERIM OR
PERMANENT, WHICH IS WHY IT'S A
THREE YEAR KIND OF TIMELINE, SO
I WOULD IMAGINE THAT AS WE GET
INTO THIS YEAR, WE WILL SEE MORE
RESOLUTIONS ON THIS DIFFERENT
ENCAMPMENTS. BUT WE REALLY WANT
TO TAKE A VERY PERSON CENTERED
APPROACH, GIVEN ALL THE THINGS
THAT EVEN DR BUSHELS REPORT
SHOWS SO THAT WE ARE RESOLVING
PEOPLE'S HOMELESSNESS IN A
PERSON CENTER TRAUMA INFORMED
WAY, RIGHT? I APPRECIATE THAT,
UM, AND THE YOU KNOW, ER F
PROGRAM, THOUGH, IS I'M INFORMED
BY SOME OF OUR BACKGROUND
MATERIAL DOESN'T HAVE
NECESSARILY THE SAME
ACCOUNTABILITY PROVISIONS THAT
DOES, FOR EXAMPLE, SO IT'S A
LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT. MEASURE
WHETHER SOMETHING WAS OR WAS NOT
ACTUALLY OCCURRING AND YOU KNOW,
IT'S STILL JUST DOESN'T SIT WELL
WITH ME RESPECTFULLY THAT GIVEN
THREE YEARS OVER 20 TOTAL
ENCAMPMENT STATEWIDE $50 MILLION
WAS STILL NOT ABLE FOR US TO BE
ABLE TO GET A JOB DONE, WHICH IS
YES, CLEAN THE SITE AND RE
MEDIATE THE ENCAMPMENT AND
APPROPRIATELY DIRECT
INDIVIDUALS. 970 INDIVIDUAL
STATEWIDE INTO A SUCCESSFUL NEXT
PLACE. UM IT DOESN'T SIT WELL
WITH ME. AND SO THESE ARE
THINGS. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
OUT OF YOUR REPORT BECAUSE AGAIN
IF WE'RE ZEROING OUT HAP RIGHT,
WHICH HAS ACCOUNTABILITY
MEASURES IN IT AND IS SHOWING
MORE DIVERSE. I THINK
APPLICATION INCLUDING PREVENTION
, AND I'M LOOKING AT SOMETHING
THAT ISN'T ISN'T ACHIEVING A
SMALL GOAL OVER THE COURSE OF
THREE YEARS THAT THAT THAT
DOESN'T SEEM WISE, BUT ANYWAY,
IT'S AGAIN GROUND BASED SETTING
INFORMATION HERE TODAY THAT I
DEEPLY APPRECIATE WE'RE GONNA
HAVE A LOT MORE CONVERSATION TO
SOLVE SOME OF OUR OUR BEST
EFFORTS TOGETHER. UM AND I LOOK
FORWARD TO THAT. THANK YOU AGAIN
FOR YOUR TIME IN THE
PRESENTATION TODAY. ALL RIGHT,
THANK YOU. WE DO HAVE OTHER
QUESTIONS, SO I HOPE IT CAN KEEP
YOU FOR A LITTLE BIT HERE. WE
HAVE SOME OF THE MEMBER TIM
GRAYSON. AND THEN AFTER THAT
ASSEMBLYMEMBER'S ELOISE REYES
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND JUST
FOR THE SAKE OF TIME I'LL SHARE.
I JUST WANT TO STATE FOR THE
REGULATION. SHERIFF SENTIMENTS
WITH CHAIR WARD, ESPECIALLY WHEN
IT COMES TO THIS. NOT THAT I
WANT TO DEHUMANIZE THE CRISIS,
WHICH THEY HAVE DONE VERY WELL
IN YOUR WORK DOES VERY WELL TO
EMPHASIZE BUT TO TALK ABOUT THE
FUNDING PART OF IT IN THE HOLE
GRANT PROCESS. IS THERE A BUILT
IN, UH, TIMELINES AND MATRIX
THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO MEET? AND
THE REPORTING PART OF IT WHEN
REPORTING IS REQUIRED IS
REQUIRED UPON THE TIME THAT THEY
RECEIVED THE GRANT ALL THE WAY
TO THE END, OR AFTER THEY START
ACTUALLY SPENDING THE MONEY.
THEN THEY START REPORTING ONCE
THEY SEE THE EFFECT OF THAT, AND
WITH THAT, WHAT IMPACTS? UH ARE
WE ARE WE PUTTING ON LOCAL
JURISDICTIONS? WHAT I'M
CONCERNED ABOUT IS DO WE HAVE A
SYSTEM IN PLACE THAT ALMOST
THESE INCENTIVIZES LOCALS
MUNICIPALITIES BECAUSE OF THE
FACT THAT MOST CITIES PROBABLY
DON'T HAVE EXPERTISE ON STAFF TO
HANDLE THESE. SO ARE WE NOT JUST
PROVIDING FUNDING, BUT ARE WE
PROVIDING THE RESOURCES TO
ADDRESS A REAL CRISIS THAT NEEDS
MORE THAN JUST MONEY? IT
ACTUALLY NEEDS GUIDANCE. GOOD
QUESTION. THERE IS ACTUALLY A
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDER
HOME BASE THAT IS AVAILABLE TO
PROVIDE THAT KIND OF TECHNICAL
EXPERTISE BECAUSE AGAIN, WE WANT
TO MAKE SURE THE LOCALS ARE
SUCCESSFUL. AND THEN EVERY
QUARTER THEY REPORT TO US. AND
THEN THERE'S AN ANNUAL REPORT AS
WELL, WHICH IS WHY THERE IS
SOMETIMES A LAG IN SOME OF THIS
DATA, WHICH THE SPRING REPORT.
HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE MORE DATA,
AND THEY ARE PROVIDING METRICS
FROM THE MOMENT THEY GET THE FUN
NOT AS AS SOON AS IT'S ACTIVE
BECAUSE WE NEED TO GET QUARTERLY
AND ANNUAL DATA FROM THEM. AND
THEN FINALLY, I WILL SAY THAT
THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF PEER
SHARING SO THAT WE HAVE OFFICE
HOURS THAT CAL, I C H S TO
REALLY MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE
ARE ANY QUESTIONS THAT THE L I,
C H STAFF CAN REALLY ANSWER THEM
TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE HAVE THE
RESOURCES AND THE SUPPORT THEY
NEED. ASSEMBLY MEMBER. UH GÓMEZ
RAISE THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I
DO. I WILL ALSO SAY THAT I THAT
I AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES, BUT
I ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT WITHOUT
THE PHYSICAL HOUSING. WE'RE
ASKING YOU TO TAKE CARE OF AN
ISSUE THAT IS ALMOST AN
IMPOSSIBILITY TO TAKE CARE OF.
AH SO PART OF THAT IS ON US TO
TRY TO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO
TO HELP YOU TO HELP THE REST OF
OUR MUNICIPALITIES DEAL WITH
SUCH AN IMPORTANT ISSUE, AND I
APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUE'S
COMMENTS WERE NOT TRYING TO
DEHUMANIZE. THE SUFFERING OF ANY
ONE HUMAN BEING, BECAUSE THIS IS
VERY PERSONAL FOR EACH ONE. UM
ACCOUNTABILITY HAS THAT'S BEEN
CLEAR THAT CALIFORNIANS KEEP
SAYING WELL, NOBODY IS BEING
HELD ACCOUNTABLE THIS MONEY
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF BEING
SPENT AND YOU'RE STILL NOT
HOUSING THE PEOPLE SO NOT TODAY,
BUT AT SOME POINT, I DO WANT TO
HEAR MORE ABOUT THE
RECOMMENDATIONS SHORT OF
BUILDING MORE FACILITIES BECAUSE
WE NEED MORE HOUSING. WE CAN'T
SAY WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE
PERMANENT HOUSING. IF WE'RE NOT
BUILDING PERMANENT HOUSING IF
WE'RE NOT PROVIDING PERMANENT
HOUSING. UM SO THAT THE TWO
THINGS THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND
THEN THE RECOMMENDATIONS BECAUSE
IT'S AN ISSUE THAT WE ALL HAVE
TO DEAL WITH IT. THAT'S WHY
WE'RE PART OF THESE COMMITTEES.
THAT'S WHY WE ASKED TO BE ON
THESE COMMITTEES TO BE MORE
INVOLVED INTO TO HELP WITH THE
SOLUTIONS. I DID HAVE SOME
QUESTIONS ON THE DATA THAT YOU
PROVIDED ON PAGE 10. FOR THE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE RETURNING TO
HOMELESSNESS. FOR FAMILIES WITH
CHILDREN. IT WAS 6.5% WENT DOWN
TO JUST UNDER 6. FOR
UNACCOMPANIED YOUTH, THOUGH IT
WAS 11, ALMOST 12% AND THEN
ALMOST 13. DO YOU HAVE AN
OPINION? WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE
THAT TO? ONE THIS IS AN AREA
THAT WE'RE STILL RESEARCHING
FURTHER, BUT ONE PLACE THAT
WE'RE PLANNING TO LOOK AND WE
CAN SHARE INFORMATION BACK FROM
THIS RESEARCH IS WHAT TYPE OF
PERMANENT HOUSING THAT FOLKS
EXITED, TOO. SO ONE OF OUR
HYPOTHESIS IS THAT FOLKS ARE
EXITING TO PERMANENT SUBSIDIZED
HOUSING ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO
STAY IN THAT HOUSING LONGER
TERM, AND THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF
UM, EMPHASIS ON ENSURING
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN ARE IN IN
HOUSING WITH VOUCHERS AND WITH
SUBSIDIES AND WE MAY SEE MORE
UNACCOMPANIED YOUTH MOVING IN
WITH FRIENDS OR FAMILY INTO LESS
STABLE LIVING SITUATIONS. UM SO
THIS IS KIND OF THE TOP LINE
NUMBERS, BUT NOW WE'RE BEGINNING
A PROCESS OF RESEARCHING MORE
INTO EACH OF THESE PERFORMANCE
MEASURES. TWO AREAS THAT IN MANY
HEARINGS, AND MANY CONVERSATIONS
THAT DID COULD DO COME UP WHEN
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
UNACCOMPANIED YOUTH OR OUR YOUTH
EXITING FOSTER SERVICES AND OUR
LGBTQ YOUTH. AND FINDING WAYS
THAT WE AS A STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FIND A WAY TO WORK WITH THESE
TWO SUBGROUPS TO MAKE SURE THAT
WE DO PROVIDE PERMANENT HOUSING.
I KNOW.
ORANGE-COUNTY-REGISTER-TOO-SOON-COUNTY-VOTE-CENTERS
. AUDINO IS HOPING TO DO THE
SAME THING. UM BUT I THANK YOU
FOR PROVIDING THIS INFORMATION
LOOK FORWARD TO FURTHER
INFORMATION ON IT. THANK YOU,
MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU. REMEMBER
ALEX LEE? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
THE SAKE OF BREVITY IN TIME. I'M
JUST GOING TO SAY ONLINE. A LOT
OF MY COMMENTS WITH MY
COLLEAGUES, ESPECIALLY CHAIR
CHRIS AWARD AS WELL, ESPECIALLY
WHEN IT COMES TO THE ENCAMPMENT
RESOLUTION PROGRAM. I NEVER
GOING TO FOLLOW UP WITH MORE
DATA AND MORE ANALYSIS FOR US,
ESPECIALLY AS IT IS A PROGRAM
DEVELOPS ON THE GROUND. BUT I
THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT AS
YOU HEARD A LOT OF COMMENTS THAT
THE LEGISLATURE IS FOCUSED ON
THE HUMAN IMPACT. AND WHEN WE
SEE PROGRAMS LIKE THE ENCAMPMENT
RESOLUTION PROGRAM, SOMETIMES
YOU WONDER WHO'S THE RESOLUTION
FOR IS IT FOR PEOPLE WHO DRIVE
BY AND SEE A TENSE WAS FOR THE
TRUE HUMANS WHO NEED TO BE
CERTAIN? HAVE SERVICES AND
HOUSING, AND WE DON'T WANT THAT.
SPOKE AST TO BE OFF AND ON THE
PERSON WHO CONSIDERS A HOMELESS
PERSON IS A BLIGHT, SO WE WANT
TO MAKE SURE THOSE PROGRAMS ARE
ACTUALLY RESOLVING AND HELPING
PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE
MAKING A LOT OF TOUGH CHOICES
WITH THE BUDGET AND HOW MIGHT BE
AT RISK. SO I JUST WANT TO LINE
MY COMMENTS THERE AND THANK YOU
FOR PRESENTING TODAY. THANK YOU
ASSEMBLYMEMBER'S BEFORE WE MOVE
TO THE NEXT NEXT PANEL. I DO
HAVE A FEW COMMENTS ON ALL OF
THE SLIDES. I APPRECIATE THE
DATA EVERYTHING. DO YOU HAVE
THIS COUNTY BY COUNTY BY ANY
CHANCE, SO WHEN WE LOOK AT SOME
OF THE CHARTS AND SAYS THE C E 0
CC O C OR COUNTIES OR GETTING
WHAT FUNNY WHICH COUNTIES ARE IF
WE COULD GET SOME OF THAT
INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE YEAH,
IT SHOWS BY RIGHT IT SHOWS, BUT
IT DOESN'T SHOW COUNTY BY COUNTY
SO I'D LIKE TO SEE LIKE
ORANGE-COUNTY-REGISTER-TOO-SOON-COUNTY-VOTE-CENTERS
. THAT I REPRESENT. UH SO THAT'S
11 ISSUE ON PAGE NINE OF THE
HANDOUT. ON THE VETERANS. I KNOW
THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF WORK
ON VETERANS AS FAR AS HOUSING
AND THERE'S EVEN BEEN A I MEAN,
THE DATA SHOWS HERE, ALMOST A
MYTH THAT WE'VE HOUSED OR WE'VE
BEEN SUCCESSFUL THERE. BUT
17,000 VETERANS ON HER ON OUR
STREETS AND CALIFORNIA DOES NOT
SEEM LIKE WE'VE SOLVED THIS
PROBLEM. AND YET, I KNOW WORKING
ON VETERAN'S COMMITTEE IN THE
PAST. THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF
WORK ON BEFORE THEY LEAVE OR
EXIT THEIR SERVICE, TRYING TO DO
SOME ORIENTATIONS AS FAR AS, UH,
SUPPORT THEY CAN GET BEFORE THEY
EXIT. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU
KNOW OF, OR THAT JUMPS OUT AT
YOU? THAT WE'RE JUST NOT DOING
TO HAVE THIS MANY VETERANS ON
OUR STREETS IN CALIFORNIA. OR
THAT WE COULD DO BETTER, I
SHOULD SAY. GO AHEAD. NO NO,
BECAUSE I MEAN, WE JUST KNOW
FROM SOME OF OUR STUDIES.
OBVIOUSLY VETERAN HOMELESSNESS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAS REDUCED
BY HALF BECAUSE OF THIS MASSIVE
FEDERAL INVESTMENT AND BECAUSE
THEY DO SOMETHING THAT
CALIFORNIA WOULD BE WONDERFUL TO
DO, WHICH IS THAT THEY REALLY
ALIGN THEIR HEALTH AND THEIR
HOUSING SYSTEM. SO EVERY VETERAN
GETS SCREENED FOR HOMELESSNESS
OR RISK OF IT IN THE HEALTH
SYSTEM. YOU KNOW IF THEY SCREAM
POSITIVE, THEIR SCENT AND GIVEN
RESOURCES, I THINK IN CALIFORNIA
THAT, UM FROM CERTAINLY FROM OUR
RESEARCH THAT SAY IN OAKLAND IS
THE VETERANS. UM WE HAVE
VETERANS WHO HAVE ACCESS TO
RESOURCES BUT CAN'T USE. LET'S
SAY A HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER
BECAUSE THE HOUSING IS JUST SO
LIMITED. AND I THINK THAT IS
THAT IS PART OF WHAT CALIFORNIA
IS RUNNING UP AGAINST IS THAT
THEY MIGHT HAVE MORE ACCESS THAN
THE REST OF CALIFORNIANS DUE TO
SOMETHING LIKE A HOUSING CHOICE
VOUCHER. BUT WHEN HOUSING IS SO
CONSTRAINED, IT CAN BE DIFFICULT
TO USE THAT SO THEY'RE IN THAT
COMPETITION WITH EVERYBODY ELSE.
WHO'S TRYING TO USE THAT VOUCHER
SOMETHING SIMILAR. I REMEMBER
WHEN I WAS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL,
THERE WAS A GROUP OF RVS AND
MANY OF SOME OF THEM ARE VERY
ELDERLY LIKE 80 YEAR OLD VETERAN
. HE HAD A VOUCHER, BUT HE
COULDN'T FIND HOUSING. SO IT'S
LIVING IN THE RV. SO THIS ISSUE
AROUND THE HOUSING PLACEMENT
COMES UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN,
UM, FOR ALL THE POPULATIONS.
YEAH BECAUSE I THINK I WAS
SURPRISED TO SEE 17,000 ON THERE
. I'M NOT SURE IF YOU'VE SEEN
THAT BEFORE, THEN VERY QUICKLY
GOING TO NINE SLIDE NINE. WE
WERE JUST ON THAT. SORRY. UM. I
ASKED ABOUT THE COUNTY AND
COUNTY. UH AND THEN, UH, ONE OF
THE THINGS THAT ALL AGREE WITH
MY COLLEAGUES ON AND I FEEL VERY
PASSIONATELY ABOUT AGAIN. IS
THIS ENCAMPMENT FUNDING? UH FOR
SOME OF US WHO HAVE OUR NOTES? I
THINK THE GOVERNOR'S TEAM HAS
ASKED FOR $350 MILLION
INVESTMENT IS THAT CORRECT THIS
YEAR? UH WELL, REDUCING OR
CUTTING OTHER BUDGETS LIKE A
CHAP FUNDING. IT'S VERY
CONCERNING TO ME PARTICULARLY
BECAUSE WHAT WE KNOW HAPPENS IS
WE WILL GET A CAMP MINT IN
CLEARED AND I KNOW THEY'RE
TRYING TO DO IT AS
COMPASSIONATELY AS POSSIBLE. BUT
IN ESSENCE, IF YOU'RE CLEARING
AND ENCAMPMENT AND YOU DON'T
HAVE THAT HOUSING SOLUTION,
WHICH WE KNOW MANY OF THEM DON'T
IN ESSENCE, THEY'RE BEING PUSHED
OFF THEIR BEING PUSHED OFF TO
THE NEXT NEIGHBORHOOD OR THE
NEXT PARK. SO FOR THE
INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE HAPPY TO
SEE THAT ENCAMPMENT AND AGAIN,
UH, NO DISREGARD TO BUSINESS
OWNERS AND HOMEOWNERS WHO IT
REALLY IS A VERY DIFFICULT, UH,
KIND OF COEXISTING. UH, BUT TO
MAKE AN INVESTMENT WITHOUT
REALLY, AS WAS STATED THE
RESOLUTION. WHO IS THE
RESOLUTION FOR BECAUSE WE DON'T
KNOW THAT WE HAVE HOUSED THEM.
WE KNOW THAT THEY'VE JUST BEEN
REMOVED, SO I'M GONNA PUT MY
SUPPORT HERE PUBLICLY AGAINST
MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE LOOKING
FOR SOLUTIONS THAT WE KNOW WORK.
WITH THAT ANY FINAL? YES. JUST
CLARIFICATION IF I MAY ON SLIDE
NUMBER 13. THE BOTTOM, SAYS NON
HISPANIC, LATIN X AND HISPANIC
LATIN X. WHAT IS THAT? Dð. THE
RACE AND ETHNICITY WERE SEPARATE
DATA FIELDS SO WHEN SOMEONE
ENTERED ACCESSING SERVICES
THEY'D BE ASKED ABOUT THEIR RACE
. UM AND THEN SEPARATELY ASKED
ABOUT THEIR ETHNICITY, SO NON
HISPANIC LATIN X WOULD BE ANYONE
WHO IDENTIFY WHO DID NOT
IDENTIFY AS HISPANIC OR LATIN X
REGARDLESS OF THE RACE THEY
IDENTIFIED AND HISPANIC LATIN X
WOULD BE ANYONE. WHO IDENTIFIED
WITH THAT ETHNICITY REGARDLESS
OF THE OTHER RACES THEY SELECT.
UM HUD'S ACTUALLY CHANGED THAT
THIS YEAR TO JOINT RACE AND
ETHNICITY, DATA SO MOVING
FORWARD WHEN WE COME BACK NEXT
YEAR, UM, WILL BE SHOWING WILL
BE ABLE TO SHOW DATA IN IN A
DIFFERENT WAY TO SHOW UM IF
SOMEONE'S IDENTIFYING US BOTH
HISPANIC AND BLACK. OR IF
THEY'RE IDENTIFYING ONLY AS
WHITE AND NON HISPANIC, SO
THAT'S CHANGING A LITTLE BIT
RIGHT NOW, BUT THAT'S KIND OF A
RELIC OF HOW THE QUESTIONS ARE
ASKED AND HOW THE DATA IS
COLLECTED BY HUD. I WILL TELL
YOU THAT WE WENT THROUGH THIS
WITH THE CENSUS AND THIS IS THIS
IS DISCONCERTING. YOUR IDENTIFY
AS LATINO. IT SHOULD BE LATINO
WITHOUT HAVING TO SAY HISPANIC
LATINO. WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET
GOOD NUMBERS IF YOU'RE SAYING
ANYWAY, I'M GLAD YOU'RE FIXING
IT TO SEE HOW IT'S BEING FIXED.
BECAUSE IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THE
LATINO POPULATION, I WOULD LIKE
TO KNOW HOW MANY LATINOS ARE
ACCESSING THE SERVICE. AND WE
CAN FOLLOW UP WITH HOW THOSE
QUESTIONS ARE ASKED WITH YOUR
STAFF. ONE POINT IS THAT IT'S
ACTUALLY HUD THAT DEFINES HOW
THE QUESTIONS ARE ALSO, UM, IN
TERMS OF THE H M I S DATA
CALIFORNIA DOESN'T HAVE ANY
JURISDICTION OVER HOW THOSE
QUESTIONS ARE ASKED FOR THE DATA
SYSTEM, SO WE TEND TO REPORT OUT
WITH LANGUAGE, MIRRORING HOW THE
QUESTIONS ARE ASKED, BUT THAT IS
NOT NECESSARILY THE WAY WE MAY
HAVE DESIGNED, UM, THOSE
QUESTIONS OURSELVES. I CONCUR,
RIGHT? I THINK THAT'S A PROBLEM.
ANY OF US WHO FILLED OUT THOSE
SENSES AND OUR OWN FAMILY FIND A
VERY CONFUSING WHEN YOU HAVE TO
MAKE THOSE TYPES OF CHOICES WITH
THAT. I THINK WE HAVE ALL THE
QUESTIONS. WE I REALLY
APPRECIATE. UH ALL OF YOU AND
THE INFORMATION YOU'RE PROVIDING
, PARTICULARLY DEBUNKING THE
MYTHS THAT WE KNOW ARE OUT THERE
THAT MAKE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO
SAY ALL THE HOMELESS FROM OTHER
STATES ARE COMING TO CALIFORNIA.
NO ONE YET. WE KNOW THEY'RE
RIGHT HERE FROM CALIFORNIA
LIVING SOMETIMES ONLY MILES FROM
WHERE THEY GREW UP, SO LET'S PUT
THAT OUT THERE HOMELESS. UH,
NOUS IN CALIFORNIA IS A
CALIFORNIA PROBLEM, AND WE HAVE
A LOT OF WORK TO DO. THANK YOU
SO MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. BUT
YOU'RE GOING TO INTRODUCE THE
NEXT YEAR.
THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, WE'RE
GOING TO CALL UP OUR NEXT PANEL.
THIS SEGMENT IS THE OVERVIEW OF
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. RESPONSE WE'D
LIKE TO WELCOME TO OUR
PRESENTATION TABLE. THIS ROXANNE
WILSON, THE COUNTY HOMELESSNESS
SERVICES DIRECTOR FOR MONTEREY
COUNTY. AND I BELIEVE ROXANNE IS
ON OUR WEB X TODAY. THANK YOU
FOR BEING ABLE TO JOIN US
VIRTUALLY. AND THEN FOLLOWING
MISS WILSON, MR. BILL HUANG, THE
HOUSING DIRECTOR OF THE CITY OF
PASADENA WILL BEGIN WITH MISS
WILSON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. CAN YOU
PLEASE SHARE THIS LINE? THEY'RE
ON. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON,
AND THANK YOU FOR THIS
OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THE GREAT
WORK OF OUR LOCAL HOMELESSNESS
RESPONSE NETWORK. AS MY FRIEND.
MY NAME IS ROXANNE WELLSTON, AND
I SERVE AS THE COUNTY HOMELESS
SERVICES DIRECTOR POSITIONED IN
THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE
COUNTY OF MONTEREY. MY SINCEREST
APOLOGIES FOR NOT MUCH FOR MY
INABILITY TO MEET WITH HIM
PERSON TODAY. I THINK I'M COMING
DOWN WITH THE COLT STARTED. DO
APOLOGIZE. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
OUR OUR MISSION AND VISION OR
SIMPLE. WE ATE TO EXPEL IT,
PROVIDING QUALITY SERVICES TO
BENEFIT OUR RESIDENTS WHO ARE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND
THE END GOAL IS ACHIEVING
FUNCTIONAL ZERO. WE ENVISION A
COMMUNITY WHERE EVERYONE HAS
ACCESS TO SAFE AND STABLE
HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
WERE NEEDED. THE COMMUNITY WHERE
PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS ARE QUICKLY
IDENTIFIED AND PROVIDED WITH
RESOURCES TO RESOLVE THEIR
HOUSING INSTABILITY WITH ZERO
WAIT TIME. AND WHILE WE ARE
GETTING CLOSER TO ACTUALIZING
THIS VISION, WE STILL HAVE A
SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WORK AHEAD
OF US. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. I
WOULD LIKE TO START BY
RECOGNIZING THE POWER OF
COLLABORATION. THE MIND MAP
BEFORE YOU EXHIBITS THE STRENGTH
OF OUR CONTINUING LOOK, CARES
GOVERNING BOARD, UM, KNOWN AS
THE LEAD ME HOME LEADERSHIP
COUNCIL AS THE COC LEAD AGENCY,
THE COALITION OF HOMELESS
SERVICES PROVIDERS PARTNERS WITH
REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL
RELEVANT STAKEHOLDER BODIES AND
IS INTENTIONAL OF BUILDING A
TABLE LARGE ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE
TO HAVE A VOICE. THE COALITION'S
OPERATIONS ARE HEAVILY FUNDED BY
THE MONTEREY COUNTY BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS, THE DEPARTMENT OF
SOCIAL SERVICES AND THE CO
CHAIRS OF THE LEAD ME HOME
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, OUR
SUPERVISORS OF BOTH MONTEREY AND
SAN BONINO COUNTIES. THE SEATS
OF THE MIRRORS ARE APPOINTED BY
THE LOCAL MAYORS ASSOCIATION AND
THE NON ROTATING SEATS ARE HELD
BY THE HOUSING AUTHORITY. LOCAL
MANAGED CARE PLAN AND MODERATE
COUNTIES, DIRECTORS OF HEALTH,
SOCIAL SERVICES AND HOMELESS
SERVICES. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
APPROXIMATELY SEVEN YEARS AGO, A
NEW MOVEMENT TO OVERHAUL
OVERHAUL OUR ENTIRE HOMELESSNESS
RESPONSES THEM CAME INTO PLAY
AFTER THE 2017 POINT IN TIME
COUNT NUMBERS WEREN'T RELEASED
SUBSEQUENTLY LEADING TO THE
FIRST MAJOR INVESTMENT FROM THE
STATE THROUGH THE HOMELESS
EMERGENCY AID PROGRAM, ALSO
KNOWN AS HEAT. BECAUSE OF THIS
FUNDING STREAM, THE COC CAINE
THE MUCH NEEDED POWER AND
ATTENTION IT NEEDED TO ENACT
REAL CHANGE. THE CSS FOR
REFERENCE. OUR LOCAL COC ONLY
MANAGED $1.7 MILLION PER YEAR
BEFORE HE KEEP ADDED $12 MILLION
TO THEIR PORTFOLIO. OTHER MAJOR
CHANGES INCLUDED THE INCREASE OF
PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
BEDS FUNDED BY HEAT AND BY HALF,
AMONG OTHERS. INCREASES TO OUR
EMERGENCY SHELTER. BEST LAYERING
RAPID RE HOUSING SERVICES ON TOP
OF ALL OF OUR EMERGENCY SHELTER
BEDS. AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
TWO LIVED EXPERIENCE ADVISORY
BOARD. NOT LISTED ON EXPLAIN OR
OTHER IMPORTANT EFFORTS LIKE THE
IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT
OF HOUSING FIRST AND THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFENDERS
COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP AND
INFORMED POLICY, AND I THINK
IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE
THAT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING HAS
BEEN PROVEN TO BE ONE OF THE
LEAST EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS,
ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE
CHRONICALLY HOMELESS. SO THAT
WAS OUR METHOD IS TO REDUCE THE
NUMBER OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING
BEDS WE HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY
AND SUBSTANTIALLY AND CREASE THE
NUMBER OF PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE
HOUSING BEDS. NEXT SLIDE,
PLEASE. IN THIS CHART. YOU WILL
SEE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE
INCREASE OF OUR HOUSING
INVENTORY ACCOUNT AND HOW IT HAS
AFFECTED OUR POINT IN TIME
COUNT, WE HAVE EXPERIENCED A
DECREASE OF 28% SINCE 2017.
PLEASE KNOW THAT YOU TWO ARE
INCREASING. OUR PIT ARE
DECREASING OUR EXCUSE ME.
MONTEREY COUNTY ALSO EXPERIENCED
A DECREASE IN OUR HALF
ALLOCATION FOR ROUNDS THREE AND
MONTEREY COUNTY. COC IS IN THE
PROCESS OF VERIFYING DATA
COLLECTED FROM THE 2024 POINT IN
TIME COUNT, AND WE ARE ANXIOUS
TO SEE IF THIS LOSS OF FUNDING
HAS NEGATIVELY IMPACTED OUR PIT
NUMBER. NEXT SLIDE. FINALLY I
WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO
ACKNOWLEDGE OTHER IMPORTANT
FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE OUR
ABILITY TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS,
HOMELESSNESS AT ITS CORE, AS
MENTIONED EARLIER IS A HOUSING
ISSUE, EVEN WITH ONE IN OUR
COUNTY MADE $100,000 A YEAR AND
HAD LITTLE TO NO VULNERABILITIES
. WE WOULD STILL HAVE A HOMELESS
POPULATION BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE
ENOUGH HOUSING. BUT THAT WILL
NEVER BE THE CASE BECAUSE WE
HAVE AN AGING AND DISABLED
POPULATION. SO IT IS IMPORTANT
TO NOTE THAT FOR EVERY 100
EXTREMELY LOW INCOME HOUSES,
HOUSEHOLDS IN OUR COUNTY WE ONLY
HAVE 16 UNITS TO SERVE THEM. WE
ARE SUBSTANTIVELY
UNDERPERFORMING COMPARED TO THE
STATE. UM AS A WHOLE. THEREFORE
IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO TAKE
INTO CONSIDERATION OUR LOCAL
RENTAL MARKET WERE MAYBE AT THE
STREETS THAT SUPPORT OUR
WORKFORCE, WHICH POPULATIONS ARE
BEING DISPROPORTIONATELY
IMPACTED IN WHICH LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS HAVE JOINED THE
FIGHT. IT IS EXPENSIVE TO LIVE
HERE IN MONTEREY CLONEY, WITH
STUDIO APARTMENTS EXCEEDING
$2300 PER MONTH. LAYERED BY A
LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE,
DEVELOPABLE LAND AND FUNDING,
PAIRED WITH COMMUNITY RESISTANCE
TO MORE SERVICES. AS I SAID,
BEFORE, WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF
WORK AHEAD OF US, BUT WE HAVE,
IN FACT, COME A LONG WAY. IN
2020, R COC PARTNERED WITH THE
MONTEREY COUNTY'S HEALTH
DEPARTMENT, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
BUREAUX AND DEPARTMENTS SERVICES
. SAN BENITO COUNTY HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT IN THE
CITY OF SOME WEAKNESS AND TO
LAUNCH THE LEAVE ME HOME PLAN TO
REDUCE HOMELESS HOMELESSNESS BY
50. THIS PLAN WAS ADOPTED BY
MONTEREY AND SAN BENITO COUNTY
SUPPORTS OF SUPERVISORS AND FIVE
CITY MUNICIPALITIES, AND WE
CONTINUE TO PURSUE MORE
POLITICAL BIDEN. R C O. C IS NOW
MANAGING OVER $7 MILLION IN
FEDERAL FUNDING AND HAS BUILT
GAPS WITH STATE INVESTMENTS
SPECIFICALLY THROUGH THE
HOMELESS, HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND
PREVENTION PROGRAM. THE ONLY
OTHER FUNDING STREAM WE HAVE
HISTORICALLY USED FOR OUTREACH
AND EMERGENCY SHELTERS THROUGH
THE STATE'S EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS
BRAND, WHICH IS ONLY $250,000 A
YEAR. THE POTENTIAL LOSS OF H J
P AND NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET COULD
MEAN THAT ALL OF THEM WORK WOULD
HAVE BEEN FOR NOTHING. SHELTERS
MAY CLOSE. RAPID REHOUSING
THROUGH OUR SHELTERS MAKE IT
PULLED BACK. WHILE I RECOGNIZE
THAT HAPPENS, A DROP IN THE
BUCKET FOR LARGE CITIES AND
COUNTIES. BUT HERE IS THE
DIFFERENCE ON WHETHER OR NOT WE
WILL BE SUCCESSFUL. ALSO I WOULD
LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT OUR
COUNTY AND THE CITY OF SALINAS
HAS RECEIVED OVER $20 MILLION AN
ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION FUNDING
AND HAVE SUBMITTED MORE THAN $14
MILLION WORTH OF ASSAM E R. F
AROUND THREE TO ADDRESS TWO
LARGE RURAL IN CANYONS IN SOUTH
WATERY COMPANY. ALSO ATTRIBUTED
TO SUCCESS IS TO THE LIKES OF
COVID PHONE, WHICH INCLUDED $52
MILLION OF EMERGENCY RENTAL
ASSISTANCE, SOMETHING OUR
COMMUNITY TRADITIONALLY DOESN'T
HAVE ACCESS TO AGAIN. I'D LIKE
TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS
OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH YOU
TODAY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO
ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY
HAVE. IT. THANK YOU, MR WILSON.
AND WE LIKE ON BEHALF OF THESE
COMMITTEES DO APPRECIATE. UM UH,
TAKING A LITTLE TIME TO REST AND
MONITORING YOURSELF. I HOPE YOU
GET BETTER SOON. UM, WE HAVE A
LOT OF BUSINESS IN FRONT OF US,
AND WE DEEPLY DON'T WANT TO
BECOME SICK OURSELVES. AND MR
WANG, WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR
PRESENTATION AS WELL. THANK YOU.
CHAIR WARD MEMBERS OF THAT.
JOINT COMMITTEE. MY NAME IS BILL
WONG AND I'M, THE HOUSING
DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF
PASADENA. POWERPOINT IS COMING
UP. UM. MY TWO MAIN POINTS HAVE
ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSED HERE
THROUGH THE PREVIOUS
PRESENTATION AND YOUR YOUR ALL
YOUR COMMENTS. ONE IS THAT THE
PIPELINES INTO HOMELESSNESS
REALLY NEED TO BE ADDRESSED. UM
ALRIGHT, HOMELESSNESS IS JUST A
SYMPTOM OF OTHER UPSTREAM
FAILURES AND IN A LOT OF WAYS,
SOMETIMES WE FEEL THOSE OF US
WHO ARE SORT OF ON THE GROUND
DOING THIS WORK. WE FEEL LIKE
WE'RE THE EMERGENCY ROOM,
DOCTOR, YOU KNOW, SEWING UP THE
GUNSHOT VICTIMS, BUT WE'RE NOT
MAKING THE BULLETS AND
MANUFACTURING THE GUNS,
ETCETERA, ETCETERA, AND SO IN
THE SAME WAY WITH HOMELESSNESS
WHEN YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A HUGE
AND GROWING HOMELESS SENIOR
POPULATION. UM. YOU KNOW, SOCIAL
SECURITY IS AVERAGE SOCIAL
SECURITY PAYMENT IS 1767, AND
YOU CAN SEE THAT'S LESS THAN THE
COST OF A ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT.
SO IT'S YOU KNOW THE GAPS IN THE
SAFETY NETS ARE REALLY, REALLY
HUGE. UM THE OTHER POINT THAT I
WANT TO MAKE. BESIDES AH AH! AH
THE PIPELINE NEEDING TO BE
ADDRESSED A PIPELINE ISSUES INTO
HOMELESSNESS NEEDS TO BE
ADDRESSED. IS THIS MATTER OF
PERMANENT FUNDING, AND JUST LIKE
THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER TALKED
ABOUT, YOU KNOW, TO START UP
PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS
, ONLY TO HAVE TO POTENTIALLY
CLOSED THEM IS VERY, VERY
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. ONE TIME
FUNDING, NO MATTER HOW MANY
TIMES WE GET ONE TIME FUNDING IS
GREAT, BUT IT CAN'T PROVIDE THE
DEEP, LONG TERM ASSISTANCE THAT
THOSE WERE CHRONICALLY HOMELESS
NEED, WHICH IS ONGOING, SO YOU
CAN'T SOLVE A PERMANENT PROBLEM
WITH SHORT TERM ONE TIME
FUNDING. HOMELESSNESS IN
PASADENA. LET ME GIVE YOU A
QUICK OVERVIEW. FIRSTLY,
REGARDING PASSING. NOW WE HAVE A
POPULATION OF 150,000, WHERE
MAJORITY RENTERS WERE 23 SQUARE
MILES RACIALLY DIVERSE WHEN
UPSCALE, AH COMMUNITY TRANSIT
RICH WITH VERY HIGH COST OF
HOUSING, AND WE HAVE A
SIGNIFICANT HOMELESS SITUATION
NEXT, PLEASE. THE HOUSING
DEPARTMENT ITSELF IS SET UP IN A
WAY THAT IS UNIQUE. UM AH, BUT
WE DON'T HAVE TO BE UNIQUE. I
THINK OTHER JURISDICTIONS CAN
CAN DO SOMETHING SIMILAR. UM,
FIRSTLY, WE ARE KIND OF
VERTICALLY INTEGRATED AND THAT
WE HAVE OUR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.
AH AH! AH DIVISION ALSO CO
HOUSED WITH OUR PUBLIC HOUSING
AGENCY, WHICH IS ALSO CO HOUSED
WITH OUR CONTINUUM OF CARE. SO
THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT GROUP
PROVIDES THE CAPITAL FUNDING TO
BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING PUBLIC
HOUSING AGENCY ADMINISTERS OUR
RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS WE
HAVE ABOUT 1500 RENTAL
ASSISTANCE VOUCHERS. FOR OUR
CITY, INCLUDING SECTION EIGHT
DASH E HV IN THE WHOLE ALPHABET
SOUP OF OTHER RENTAL ASSISTANCE
VOUCHERS. AND THEN WE ARE OUR
OWN HOMELESS CONTINUUM OF CARE
OF THE 44 CONSUMES OF CARE IN
THE STATE. THREE OF THREE OF US
ARE CITY BASED, UM AND WE ARE
ONE OF THEM. SO WE TAKE THE LEAD
FOR OUR OWN HOMELESS SERVICES,
PLANNING AND FUNDING. WE
RECEIVED FUNDING FROM FROM THE
FEDS ES G MONEY. WE RECEIVE
STATE FUNDING, COUNTY DOLLARS
AND VERY LIMITED AMOUNT. AMOUNT
OF LOCAL CITY SOURCES. NEXT. BUT
THIS IS VERY HELPFUL WHEN IT FOR
INSTANCE, WHEN IT COMES TO
DEVELOPING PERMANENT, SUPPORTIVE
HOUSING. UM WE HAVE WHERE WE CAN
PROVIDE THE CAPITAL, THE RENTAL
ASSISTANCE AND THE SERVICE
DOLLARS ALL TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE
SURE THEY'RE ALL AVAILABLE
BEFORE WE EVEN UNDERTAKE A
PROJECT. SO, UM, LOOKING AT THE
HOMELESS COUNT HOMELESS TRENDS
FROM 2010 TO 2020. IN THE STATE.
OVERALL THE POPULATION ON HOUSE
POPULATION ROSE BY 31% NEXT.
WE'RE IN L, A COUNTY AND SO IN
L, A COUNTY AND ROUGHLY THE SAME
TIME PERIOD IT WENT UP ABOUT 50.
NEXT. AND IN PASADENA. IT HAS
GONE DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY FROM
2011 DOWN THROUGH 2016 AND SORT
OF STAYED AT A CONSISTENTLY
ABOUT 54% REDUCTION. UM ALRIGHT
NEXT. AND SO WHAT WE DID IN 2010
2011 TO BEND THAT CURVE IS
NOTHING THAT WE DON'T OTHER THAT
WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING THAT ISN'T
ALREADY WIDELY DONE. WE FOCUSED
ON PERMANENT HOUSING. WE ALREADY
HAD QUITE A FEW. WE HAVE WE HAVE
AN EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR MEN,
WOMEN, FAMILIES, BAD WEATHER
SHELTER. WE KEPT THEM ALL OPEN.
WE CONTINUE THAT, BUT WE FOCUSED
NEW RESOURCES ON PERMANENT
HOUSING, BOTH PERMANENT
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR THE
CHRONICALLY HOMELESS AND RAPID
RE HOUSING FOR THOSE WHO ARE
LESS AND LESS ACUTE. UM, WE
FOCUSED ON HOMELESS PREVENTION
FOCUSED ON HOMELESS OUTREACH. WE
EVEN CLOSED DOWN OUR INTAKE
CENTER THAT WE HAD FOR SEVERAL
DECADES AND REPLACE THEM WITH
HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAMS BECAUSE
OF FOLKS WHO NEEDED THE SERVICES
THE MOST DIDN'T COME IN, AND SO
WE BASICALLY CHANGED IT OR
RUBRIC AND SAID, YOU DON'T NEED
TO COME TO US. WE'RE GOING TO
COME TO YOU. AND SO WE'RE VERY
HEAVY AND HOMELESS OUTREACH. WE
HAVE, UH, SPECIALLY TRAINED
POLICE TEAMS, PARAMEDIC TEAMS.
AH NONPROFIT TEAMS,
MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS, UH,
OUTREACH WORKERS IN OUR PUBLIC
LIBRARIES OF WHICH, IN A CITY OF
23 SQUARE MILES WE HAVE 10
PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE BUSINESS
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS ALSO EVEN
HAVE THEIR OWN HOMELESS
OUTREACH. UH WORKERS AND SO
HOMELESS OUTREACH IS REALLY,
REALLY CRITICAL BUILDING TRUST.
IS THE CAPITAL THAT WE HAVE. TO
GET FOLKS TO PARTICIPATE, SO
WE'RE VERY HEAVY ON HOMELESS
AVERAGE, AND THESE ARE ALL UH,
PERMANENT. UH TEAMS WORKING IN
23 SQUARE MILES. UM AND THEN WE
ALSO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE OUR
EMERGENCY HOUSING AND INTERIM
HOUSING NEXT. AH AH, AN EXAMPLE
OF A PREMISE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
PROJECTS WE OPENED THREE MONTHS
AGO. IT'S FAITH BASED LAND. THIS
WAS THE SALVATION ARMY. THEY
WANTED TO BUILD A FOOD PANTRY.
THEY WERE GOING TO TEAR DOWN A
LITTLE OFFICE BUILDING THAT THEY
HAD USED FOR FOOD PANTRY BECAUSE
IT'S NOT A GOOD PHYSICAL PLANT
FOR FOOD PANTRY STATE OF THE ART
FOOD PANTRIES ARE MORE LIKE A
WAREHOUSE WITH A SMALL RETAIL
SECTION WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO IN
AND CHOOSE THEIR OWN GROCERIES,
AS OPPOSED TO JUST DRIVING UP
AND GETTING BAGS OF GROCERIES,
MOST OF WHICH THEY DON'T WANT TO
EAT. UM SO THEY WANTED TO TEAR
DOWN THIS LITTLE OFFICE BUILDING
AND ASKED THE CITY TO GIVE HIM A
FUNDRAISING LETTER TO SAY WE
SUPPORT THIS. THIS IS AN
IMPORTANT THING, BUT WE LOOKED
AT IT AND SAID WHAT? YOU'RE IN A
YOUR YOUR SITE HAS A LOT OF
DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL. AS WE
SHOWED THEM THAT YOU CAN DEVELOP
HOUSING, PARTICULARLY PERMANENT,
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, HOW TO DO
IT, WHAT THE ZONING ALLOWS AND
THAT WE WOULD MAKE THE FIRST UH,
MULTI MILLION DOLLAR COMMITMENT
TO MAKE THE PROJECT HAPPEN NEXT.
SO THEY'VE ENDED UP WITH IS A
NEW FOUR STORY BUILDING. THEY
GOT THEIR STATE OF THE ART FOOD
PANTRY, BUT THERE'S ALSO 65
UNITS OF PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE
HOUSING. 16 OF WHICH, UH, FOR
CHRONICALLY HOMELESS VETERANS
NEXT. WE HAVE A HOMELESS
VETERAN, UM, POPULATION, BUT NOT
A LARGE ONE, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT
CLOSE TO ANY LARGE VÀ FACILITY.
SO IN L, A COUNTY MOST OF THE
HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF HOMELESS
VETERANS ARE IN WEST L, A LONG
BEACH OR ON THE STAMP DOWN THE
VALLEY WHERE THERE ARE LARGE VÀ
FACILITIES. PASADENA IS NOT ONE
OF THOSE, BUT WE HAVE SOME, UM,
THIS IS, UH AH, THE FUNDING
STACK FOR THAT PARTICULAR
PROJECT. SO THIS IS 66 UNITS OF
HOUSING OVER A FOOD PANTRY WAS
$36 MILLION. AH NOT INCLUDING
THE LAND BECAUSE THEY ALREADY
OWNED THE LAND. UM BUT THE CITY
OF PASADENA'S CONTRIBUTION WAS 2
MILLION THAT THE PROJECT
UTILIZED STATE MHP DOLLARS,
WHICH WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR,
UH, 4% BOND AS WELL AS SOME
OTHER ALLOCATIONS. FUNDING
ALLOCATIONS. THE CITY ALSO
COMMITTED PROJECT BASED VOUCHERS
AND THE VAST VOUCHERS THROUGH
OUR PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY. AND
THEN THE SERVICES ARE PAID FOR
BY COUNTY THROUGH A QUARTER CENT
SALES TAX MEASURE AND THE
PROJECT UTILIZED AND 50% DENSITY
BONUS NEXT. SO THERE IT IS NEXT
OPENED THREE MONTHS AGO. WE HAVE
OUR THAT'S THEIR FOOD PANTRY
NEXT. SO WE HAVE ANOTHER OUR
FIFTH. THAT WAS OUR FOURTH
PERMIT. SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
PROJECT. OUR FIFTH PERMIT.
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROJECT IS
LEASING UP RIGHT NOW WILL OPEN
NEXT MONTH, AND THAT IS 69 UNITS
FOR CHRONICALLY HOMELESS SENIORS
. UM THIS OTHER LITTLE PROJECT
JUST GIVES YOU AN AN EXAMPLE.
WE'RE REALLY WE REALLY WORK
ALONG THE ENTIRE CONTINUUM. BUT
THIS IS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR
TRANSITION AGE YOUTH COMING OUT
OF PASSING THE CITY COLLEGE. UM
AND WHAT'S WHAT'S, UH,
INNOVATIVE ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR
PROJECT IS PASSING. THE CITY
COLLEGE IS PAYING THE RENT FOR
THESE. THESE YOUTH, THEIR
STUDENTS, EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T
THERE AREN'T TAPPED INTO THE
STATE HOMELESS DOLLARS, BUT
THEY'RE PAYING FOR IT OUT OF
THEIR OWN BUDGET. IT'S THAT BIG
OF AN ISSUE. FOR THEM NEXT. AND
THEN WE ALSO ARE VERY INTERESTED
IN THE, UM IN THE, UH, SOLUTIONS
IN SINGLE FAMILY ZONES BECAUSE,
LIKE MOST BUILT ENVIRONMENTS
BUILT UP ENVIRONMENTS CITY OF
PASSING A 70% OF THE LAND IS
ZONED RED ARE ONE SINGLE FAMILY
RESIDENTIAL. SO IF WE DON'T HAVE
SOLUTIONS, MEANINGFUL SOLUTIONS
WITHIN THE SINGLE FAMILY ZONE,
WE'RE SEEDING AWAY 70% OF THE
FIELD. BEFORE YOU KNOW. AH WE
EVEN START SO WE DID. WE DID A
DEMONSTRATION HOUSE. IT'S A
TYPICAL THREE BEDROOM, TWO BATH
HOUSE NEXT WITH A DETACHED ONE
CAR GARAGE. WE BUILT. UH SO WE
BUILT A DETACHED ONE BEDROOM 80
YOU NEXT? AND THEN CONVERTED THE
MASTER SUITE INTO A ATTACHED
JUNIOR A D U AND NEXT. AND SO
THIS IS THE FINAL PROJECT THAT
WE HAVE. IT'S A BUY RIGHT
PROJECT, A TWO BEDROOM, ONE BATH
HOUSE, JUNIOR 80 YOU ONE BEDROOM
, EIGHT EU AND WE USE IT FOR
PERMANENT HOUSING OF RAPID
REHOUSING LOWER ACUITY, CLIENTS
AND, UM, THE RENTS ARE EITHER
ONE HAS RENTAL ASSISTANCE. THE
OTHER RANTS ARE DESIGNED WHAT A
PERSON AT MINIMUM WAGE COULD
AFFORD TO PAY. ON THEIR OWN. UM
AND, UH, MORE THAN HALF OF THE
RESIDENTS THERE ALL NO LONGER
NEED A RENTAL ASSISTANCE BECAUSE
THEY'RE WORKING MINIMUM WAGE
JOBS. THEY PAY THEIR OWN RENT.
BUT THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT
THIS PROGRAM IS THAT THIS IS
DONE BY RIGHT IN A HIGH END
SINGLE FAMILY, UH, RESIDENTIAL
NEIGHBORHOOD. WITH NO COMMUNITY
OPPOSITION. NOTHING AND IT'S
ENDING HOMELESSNESS. IT HAS
ENDED HOMELESSNESS FOR IN THIS
CASE RIGHT NOW, 55 PEOPLE I
THINK THAT'S OH, NEXT. UM SO
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE
STATE HAS DONE THAT THAT WE
FOUND TO BE VERY HELPFUL.
PROJECT HOME T. ALTHOUGH WE WERE
UNSUCCESSFUL IN GETTING ANY
APPLICATIONS AND SEE A PASADENA
BECAUSE MOTEL OWNERS KEPT
WANTING TO CHANGE THE PRICE AND
GET MORE THAN APPRAISED VALUE,
WHICH IS CALLED GIFT OF PUBLIC
FUNDS, ANYWAY, BUT THAT PROGRAM
IS REALLY GOOD. YOU KNOW, HAS
BEEN VERY EFFECTIVE. UM, BUT
IT'S NO LONGER FUNDED. AH THE
PERMANENT LOCAL HOUSING
ALLOCATION PROGRAM HAS BEEN
FANTASTIC. SB $2 WHAT'S GREAT
ABOUT THAT DOLL THAT THAT
FUNDING SOURCE THAT GIVES YOU A
LOT OF FLEXIBILITY CAN BE USED
FOR CAPITAL. IT COULD BE USED
FOR OPERATING IT COULD BE USED
FOR OPERATING SUBSIDIES. UM IT'S
FANTASTIC, BUT IT'S ONLY FOR US.
IT'S ONLY ABOUT 25% OF THE OLD
REDEVELOPMENT SET ASIDE. IT'S
FANTASTIC MONEY. WE WISH WE
COULD GET 345 10 TIMES AS MUCH.
WE CAN DO A LOT MORE IF WE HAD
THAT KIND OF FLEXIBLE MONEY AND
THEN ALSO WITH THE HALF AND THE
HEAT FUNDS. WHAT'S BEEN VERY
GREAT ABOUT THAT MONEY IS THAT
IT'S ESSENTIALLY GETTING BLOCK
GRANTED DOWN TO THE
JURISDICTIONS WITHOUT BEING
OVERLY PRESCRIPTIVE THING CAN
ONLY BE USED FOR THIS OR THAT,
BUT IT'S LIKE HERE'S A MENU OF
THINGS THAT CAN BE USED FOR YOU
DECIDE WHAT IS BEST FOR YOUR
COMMUNITY AND THAT KIND OF LOCAL
COMMUNITY CONTROL COMBINED WITH
THE POWER OF THE STATE FUNDING
IS VERY EFFECTIVE. NEXT AND LAST
AH, UM. SO OUR CHALLENGE IS, YOU
KNOW WE'RE VERY SHORT ON CAPITAL
FUNDING FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT. UM
IN ORDER TO EFFECTIVELY DO
DEVELOP PERMANENT, SUPPORTIVE
HOUSING. YOU NEED PROJECT BASED
VOUCHERS. BUT THERE'S A CAP THE
HOUSING AUTHORITIES HAVE, AND
WE'VE REACHED OUR CAP, WHICH IS
30% OF ALL YOUR VOUCHERS. AFTER
THAT, YOU CAN'T PROJECT BASED
ANYMORE AND WE'VE BEEN OUT WE'VE
BEEN WE AND SEVERAL OTHER
HOUSING AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN
TRYING TO GET HER TO INCREASE
THAT CAP NOT REQUIRE THAT IT BE
INCREASED, BUT GIVE THE HOUSING
AUTHORITY'S THE OPTION. TO
INCREASE THAT CAP FROM MAYBE UP
TO 50% IT DOESN'T REQUIRE ANY
MORE ADDITIONAL VOUCHERS. IT
DOESN'T IMPACT THE BUDGET, BUT
WE CAN'T GET THEM TO DO THAT. SO
IF OUR CALIFORNIA DAGGER
DELEGATION COULD REALLY HELP US,
YOU CAN HELP US TO HELP TO GET
THAT CHANGE THAT WOULD BE
ENABLED. ALLOW US TO CONTINUE
DEVELOP PERMANENT, SUPPORTIVE
HOUSING. WE HAVE THE POLITICAL
WILL WE HAVE LAND AVAILABLE? UM
OUR LAST TWO PERMITS PART OF
HOUSING PROJECTS WHEN THEY WENT
TO CITY COUNCIL. THEY WERE
APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY. IN THE
FIRST VOTE WITH ZERO COMMUNITY
OPPOSITION, YOU KNOW, SO THERE
ARE JURISDICTIONS THAT WANT TO
DO MORE PERMITS WERE HAVING, BUT
THIS IS A REAL LIMITING FACTOR.
UM, AND THEN, LASTLY, WE NEED
MORE LONG TERM FUNDING LIKE THAT
. PL PL H A PROGRAM IS A GREAT
MODEL FOR US. THANK YOU. GREAT
THANK YOU, MR WANG. UM AND I
APPRECIATE THAT YOU REALLY
CLOSED ON, YOU KNOW, OBSERVING
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE STATE
COULD DO BETTER TO BE ABLE TO
HELP YOU WANT TO COMMENT ON SOME
OF YOUR PROGRAMS, BUT I WONDER
MISS WILSON, IF YOU HAD ANY
COMMENT AS WELL TO THAT, THAT
AND MAYBE JUST SOME BROAD, UH,
OBSERVATIONS ABOUT WHERE WE
COULD FOCUS OUR EFFORTS EITHER
POLICY OR BUDGET. UM TO BE ABLE
TO HELP YOU CONTINUE THE TREND
LINES THAT THAT YOU'RE SHOWING
IN MONTEREY AND SAN BENITO
COUNTIES. YEAH I ACTUALLY THINK
THAT THAT WAS A FANTASTIC, UM,
PRESENTATION THAT REALLY DOES
MIRROR OUR EXPERIENCE HERE IN
MONTEREY COUNTY. I THINK THAT AH
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE
CONCERNED ABOUT. HERE IS THE
LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF WHOSE
ROLE IT IS TO END HOMELESSNESS,
WHILE MANY OF OUR CITIES HAVE
JOINED THE FIGHT, THERE ARE
STILL SOME CITIES THAT ARE
RELUCTANT. AND, UM, I KNOW THAT
SISAK HAS PUT FORTH QUITE A BIT
OF EFFORT TO, UM, ADVOCATE TO BE
MORE DISTINGUISHED ROLES BETWEEN
CITIES, COUNTIES AND CONTINUUM
OF CARE. APPEAL HHS AND THE
WONDERFUL FUNDING STREAM, WHICH
WE ALSO USE IN OUR COMMUNITY TO,
UM TO FUND OR HOUSING,
NAVIGATION CENTERS AND SOME OF
OUR OUTREACH, BUT IT ALSO IS NOT
ENOUGH. SO, UM I, FROM MY
PERSPECTIVE, I THINK THAT AHH ÁP
IS PROBABLY THE MOST BENEFICIAL
IT FOR US BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH A
SEVERE LACK OF FEDERAL FUNDING.
UM, IN OUR COMMUNITY, WE WANT TO
CONTINUE PURSUING IT, BUT IT
DOES TAKE TIME FOR US TO GET
THERE, AND EVEN THE FEDERAL
FUNDING, LIKE THE COC FUNDING
DOES NOT PAY FOR UM, OUTREACH
AND EMERGENCY SHELTERS, SO WE
WILL ALWAYS HAVE THAT GAP
WITHOUT A HUGE ÁP AND OUTREACH
HAS BEEN ONE OF OUR BIGGEST,
MOST EFFECTIVE, UM, PROGRAMS
THAT WE HAVE LAUNCHED SINCE THE
BEGINNING OF THE PANDEMIC
BECAUSE IT DOES TAKE QUITE A BIT
OF TIME AND WHEN WE ARE
COORDINATED ENTRY SYSTEM ALWAYS
HAS A. FAILS TO KEEP TRACK OF
PEOPLE AND THE OUTREACH TEAM
HUSBAND ABLE TO HELP US LOCATE
FOR FOLKS WHO ARE WHO ARE UP FOR
HOUSING, SO I JUST WANT TO
UNDERSCORE EVERYTHING THAT ERIC
AND LUXOTTICA AND MARGOT HEAD,
UM TODAY BECAUSE THAT IS IN LINE
WITH WHAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING
HERE. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU
FOR ALSO UNDERSCORING AGAIN, AS
MANY ARE THAT THE VALUE OF HAP
AND HOW IT HAS BEEN A DIFFERENCE
OVER RECENT YEARS IN OUR
COMMUNITIES. I THINK YOU'D KIND
OF WROTE DOWN YOUR QUOTE THAT IT
IT HAPPENED IS THE DIFFERENCE
FOR YOU TO BE SUCCESSFUL. AND SO
THAT'S NOT LAWS, BUT I WANNA
ALSO REFLECT AND, UH AND BACK
YOU UP THAT THERE'S AN
UNFAIRNESS WHEN WE'RE MAYBE JUST
KIND OF OVER. BROADLY TYING OUR
PIT COUNT TO HAVE AWARDS. UM IT
ALMOST SEEMS COUNTERINTUITIVE,
AND WE EXPERIENCE THAT DOWN IN
MY REGION TO IN SAN DIEGO, WHERE
WE SAW OUR NUMBERS DECREASED,
LIKE LIKE YOUR TWO REGIONS. BUT
THEN OUR POTENTIAL HAVE
ALLOCATION WAS GOING DOWN. AND
WHAT SEEMED UNFAIR WAS THAT WE
WERE TRYING TO GET OUR ACT
TOGETHER. WE WERE COORDINATING
BETTER BETWEEN ALL THE
STAKEHOLDER GROUPS AND ALL THE
LOCAL AGENCIES. AND WE WERE
SHOWING EARLY SIGNS OF SUCCESS.
AT LEAST WE WERE INCREASING OUR
POSITIVE OUTCOMES. SO YOU'RE
PENALIZED FOR THAT? THAT SEEMS
TO BE FLIPPING IT ON ITS HEAD.
IF WE'VE GOT LIMITED RESOURCES
YOU WANT TO REWARD SYSTEMS THAT
ARE STARTING TO SHOW BEST
PRACTICES AND ARE SHOWING MEAL
PROPORTIONATELY MORE POSITIVE
RESULTS, AND WE SHOULD BE
REFLECT REWARDING THAT, BUT ALSO
REFLECTING THAT, MAYBE INVEST
PRACTICES STATEWIDE. SO I GOT
YOUR BACK ON THAT, AND WE'LL
CERTAINLY BE LOOKING FOR THAT AS
THOSE CONVERSATIONS COME UP. AND
THIS YEAR'S BUDGET. UM ARE THERE
OTHER WAYS WE HEARD EARLIER FROM
THE PREVIOUS PANEL THAT WHEN
STATE FUNDS ARE RECEIVED BY A
LOCAL ENTITIES THAT THERE MIGHT
BE LOCAL PROCUREMENT BARRIERS
ARE THE THINGS THAT WE COULD BE
DOING UP HERE TO POSSIBLY GIVE
YOU SOME MORE FLEXIBILITY OR
WAIVE CERTAIN PROCUREMENT
REQUIREMENTS SO THAT YOU CAN
JUST GET THOSE RESOURCES OUT THE
DOOR? WELL, I'M NOT SURE ABOUT
THAT SPECIFIC QUESTION. I MEAN,
I COULD TELL YOU THAT ONE OF THE
THINGS THAT IS HAPPENING IS THAT
IT'S BEEN HARD FOR ANY
ORGANIZATION TO HIRE PEOPLE. AND
THAT'S JUST THE SAME FOR
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. UM AH.
IT'S HARD TO HIRE AND TO KEEP
CASE MANAGERS IT EVEN. YOU KNOW,
WE HAVE A PERMANENT PART OF
HOUSING PROJECT THAT IS FUNDED
FOR A CERTAIN NUMBER OF CASE
MANAGEMENT. THEY CAN NEVER KEEP
THE FULL SLATE. THEY'RE BECAUSE
PEOPLE COME IN, AND THEY AND
THEY AND THEY GO. SO UM, THE
OVERALL HIRING? I DON'T THINK
THIS IS JUST WITHIN THE HOMELESS
INDUSTRY. A LOT OF INDUSTRIES
ARE HAVING A HARD TIME HIRING
PEOPLE, AND THAT'S KIND OF THE
THAT'S ONE OF THE FACTORS THAT I
THINK SLOWING THE UTILIZATION OF
THESE DOLLARS. ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD WHEN IT
COMES DOWN TO THE ENCAMPMENT
RESOLUTION. FUNDING IS IT IS A
THREE YEAR PROGRAM, BUT WE WERE
MANDATED TO SPEND HALF OF THE
MONEY WITHIN 50% OF THE FUNDING
WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR. SO UM,
HOW DO YOU CONTINUE FUNDING
THOSE PROGRAMS FOR YEAR TWO AND
THREE IF HALF OF THE MONEY HAS
TO GET SPENT AFTER THE FIRST
YEAR, SO THAT IS ONE OF THE
THINGS THAT I THINK THE STATE
CAN TAKE A LOOK AT WHEN WE ARE
WRITING LEGISLATION THAT'S TIED
TO FUNDING IS, UM WHAT THE LOCAL
JURISDICTIONS AND THEIR LOCAL
CONTINUUM HAVE TO GO THROUGH IN
ORDER FOR US TO GET THE MONEY
OUT THE DOOR. I DON'T KNOW. HOW
IT ISAND TOGETHER WHEN IT COMES
DOWN TO PROCUREMENT. UM BUT IF
THERE IS ANY WAY THAT THE STATE
CAN OVERRIDE LOCAL PROCUREMENT
POLICIES, I WOULD DEFINITELY
ENCOURAGE THAT. I MIGHT FRAME IT
AS A WAY TO BE ABLE TO SORT OF
REFRAME SOME OF THE GUIDELINES
THAT THAT CAN HELP, MAYBE
UNSTICK SOME OF THE CHALLENGES
THAT YOU'RE RUNNING INTO. IF
THERE IS A STATE LAW ON ON
CONTRACTING THAT IS ADDING TIME
AND BARRIER FOR YOU TO BE ABLE
TO ULTIMATELY GET IT TOWARDS THE
WAY, BUT I APPRECIATE MR WRONG
YOUR POINT THAT WE ARE NOT DOING
ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT
THOSE THAT ARE DOING THE HARD
WORK ON THE FRONT LINES. AND
THESE ARE UM, TURNING INTO
TEMPORARY POSITIONS WITH A LOT
OF TRANSITION BECAUSE THOSE
INDIVIDUALS DESERVE UPWARD
MOBILITY AS WELL, UH, AND THAT
THAT'S NOT FAIR FOR THEM TO BE
KIND OF KIND OF STUCK IN A JOB
RECEIVING MINIMUM WAGE OR
SOMETHING CLOSE TO IT. WHEN THE
WORK IS SO HARD, I WANT TO THANK
AGAIN FOR YOUR LOCAL EXAMPLES
AND NOTED VERY CLEARLY IN JUST
THE SALVATION ARMY. PROJECT THAT
YOU HIGHLIGHTED HERE THAT NEARLY
A QUARTER OF THOSE FUNDS WERE
RESULTED IN HP FUNDS AGAIN.
WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW AREAS
OR BUCKETS THAT ARE AT RISK DUE
TO THIS YEAR'S STATE BUDGET. UM
YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT
PROJECTS LIKE THIS THAT MAY NOT
HAVE EVER COME TO BE BECAUSE
SIGNIFICANT PIECE OF THE PUZZLE
WOULD BE MISSING, BUT ALSO
AGREEING WITH YOU THAT WE NEED
TO DO MORE TO SUPPORT WELL TO
REALLY COURAGE AND HOPEFULLY
MOBILIZED FEDERAL COUNTERPARTS
WHETHER IT'S THROUGH THE
VOUCHERS THROUGH THE 4% TAX
CREDITS THROUGH OTHER RESOURCES
THAT CALIFORNIA DOESN'T RECEIVE
A FAIR SHARE OR OR OR ARE
WORKING THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE,
UM, HIGHLIGHTED, AND, UH AND
REAUTHORIZED AND HOPEFULLY
INCREASED AS AS TIME GOES ON AS
WELL. SO WE'VE GOT OUR WORK CUT
OUT FOR US. BUT YOU KNOW, YOUR
FIRST OF ALL LOCAL LEADERSHIP IS
APPRECIATED. UM AND AS AS A CASE
STUDY IN WHAT WE CAN SHARE WITH
OUR COLLEAGUES AND YOU KNOW,
WE'LL CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO
PARTNER WITH YOU AS WE'RE. WE'RE
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET
THROUGH THIS BUDGET PERIOD TO BE
ABLE TO SUPPORT THE GOOD TREND
OF WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING AND
WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU
VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME WILL BE
MOVING ON TO OUR THIRD PANEL.
UH, THE OVERVIEW OF PREVENTION
EFFORTS. WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT THIS BEFORE. BUT FOR THAT
WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME UP TO THE
PRESENTATION TABLE AND THANK YOU
AGAIN FOR YOUR PATIENTS. AND, UH
UH, LENGTHY BUT INFORMATIVE
INFORMATION HEARING TODAY WE
HAVE CONSUELO HERNANDEZ, THE
DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING WITH THE
COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA. CHAD
DESERVE IT. FORECASTS HABITS,
THE CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER FOR
DESTINATION HOME, AND MARY KATE
JOHNSON, THE DIRECTOR, REGIONAL
HOMELESS PREVENTION WITH ALL
HOME AND MISS HERNANDEZ, I THINK
I'LL ASK YOU TO GO FIRST. THANK
YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON, CONSUELO
HERNANDEZ. I AM THE DIRECTOR OF
THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA OFFICE
OF SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. WE ARE
ALSO SERVING AS THE
COLLABORATIVE APPLICANT FOR THE
COC AND CHADBOURNE HORGAS, WHO'S
HERE WITH ME FROM DESTINATION
HOME. WE WILL BE PROVIDING THIS
PRESENTATION TOGETHER. UM, SO
OUR FOCUS IS REALLY AROUND OUR
PREVENTION EFFORTS. WE DO USE
OUR HAVE FUNDING TO SUPPORT THE
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION SYSTEM.
UM AND TO ANSWER SOME OF THE
QUESTIONS THAT YOU ASKED EARLIER
FROM THE OTHER PANELS. IS THAT
WE LEVERAGE THE HALF DOLLARS
OVER A THREE YEAR PERIOD. SO,
FOR INSTANCE, IF OUR AWARD WAS
ROUGHLY 27 MILLION, THEN WE SET
ASIDE MAYBE 10 MILLION FOR
PREVENTION AND THEN THAT SPREAD
OVER THREE YEARS. AND I'LL MOVE
IT OVER TO CHAD NOW. GOOD
AFTERNOON. THANKS FOR HAVING US
UM. YOU KNOW, TO BUILD UPON WHAT
CONSUELO JUST MENTIONED, UM, OUR
COMMUNITY DECIDED THAT
PREVENTION WAS A PRIORITY
BECAUSE WE HAD ESTABLISHED THE
COUNTYWIDE SANTA CLARA COUNTY
WIDE HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION
SYSTEM BACK IN 2017 TO REALLY
KIND OF MAKE A STRATEGIC EFFORT
TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS WE WERE
SEEING, YOU KNOW, CONSISTENT
RISE IN INFLOW, UH, NEW PEOPLE
BECOMING HOMELESS IN OUR
COMMUNITY. DESPITE TREMENDOUS
NEW EFFORTS THAT CONTINUE TO
HOUSE PEOPLE, UH FASTER THAN
EVER MORE THAN EVER, A YEAR OVER
YEAR, SO WE ESTABLISHED THE
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION SYSTEM.
UM WHICH IS CURRENTLY A NETWORK
OF 19 COMMUNITY BASED
ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTY,
BOTH LARGE AND SMALL. THERE ARE
SOME THAT ARE BASED IN CERTAIN
NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE WE KNOW THAT
PARTICULARLY IMPACTED PEOPLE
LIVE. WE FOUND EARLY ON AS AN
EXAMPLE OF HOW WE'VE USED DATA
IN THE SYSTEM TO ADD PARTNERS
THAT, UM, ROUGHLY 30% OF
HOUSEHOLDS HAD EITHER CURRENT OR
RECENT EXPERIENCE WITH DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE, HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
THAT'S WHY WE ADDED THE DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE ADVOCACY CONSORTIUM,
FOR EXAMPLE, UH, SIMILARLY, WE
FOUND THAT FAMILIES WERE CALLING
THE SHELTER HOTLINE FOR SHELTER.
AND GETTING TURNED AWAY IF THEY
WERE STILL HOUSED. EVEN THOUGH
THEY WERE SAYING, HEY, I DON'T
KNOW HOW I'M GONNA PAY RENT NEXT
MONTH, SO WE KIND OF INTERVENED
IN A BROADER PEOPLE TOWARDS THE
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION SYSTEM.
WE ALSO PROVIDE, UH, TYPICALLY
IMMEDIATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE,
UM, AS WELL AS LEGAL SUPPORT,
ADVANCED THE SLIDE ONE. I THINK
THAT TO ALIGN WITH HIS HIS
COMMENTARY, SORRY ABOUT THAT
PROBLEM BACK. YEAH, I AM LOOKING
AT THIS KIND OF MAP OF ALL THE
DIFFERENT PROVIDERS ACROSS THE
COUNTY AND THE DIFFERENT
SERVICES. THANK YOU. UM WE
PROVIDE AS I MENTIONED IMMEDIATE
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, WHICH IS
REALLY THE PRIMARY INTERVENTION
AS WELL AS SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
LIKE LEGAL SERVICES. CASE
MANAGEMENT, ACCESSING SAFETY NET
BENEFITS, ETCETERA. NEXT SLIDE,
PLEASE. SO HERE YOU CAN SEE KIND
OF A RECENT CUMULATIVE LOOK AT
AT OUR IMPACT IN THE
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION SYSTEM.
COUNTYWIDE UM, A TREMENDOUS
AMOUNT OF HOUSEHOLDS THAT THAT
GROWS EVERY DAY. THESE ARE
HOUSEHOLDS THAT ARE IMMINENT
RISK OF HOMELESSNESS, YOU KNOW,
PER THE HUD DEFINITION. UM AND
OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, YOU
CAN SEE THAT AS WE SHOULD
EXPECT, UM, YOU KNOW, OVER 90%
OF HOUSEHOLDS STAY HOUSED WHILE
THEY'RE, UH, ENROLLED IN THE IN
THE PROGRAM. HOWEVER MORE
IMPORTANTLY, IF YOU LOOK AT A
YEAR OUT, ONLY 3% OF HOUSEHOLDS
ARE BECOMING HOMELESS THAT WE'RE
ABLE TO SEE IN. HMM I S WHICH IS
PRETTY INCREDIBLE. AND WHAT YOU
DON'T SEE ON HERE IS THAT
ACTUALLY ONLY 7% OF HOUSEHOLDS
ARE BECOMING HOMELESS AFTER TWO
YEARS, SO WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF
LONGITUDINAL SUCCESS. THE
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION SYSTEM
IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY, WAS ALSO
STUDIED THROUGH AN RCT TRIAL BY
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME'S
LAB FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES.
UM AND THEY JUST REINFORCED THE
OUTCOMES THAT WE WERE SEEING
LOCALLY IN THAT THIS WORKS
ESPECIALLY WORKS FOR HIGHLY
VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS, FOR
EXAMPLE, HOUSEHOLDS THAT HAVE
HAD PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OF
HOMELESSNESS OR HOUSEHOLDS WITH
EXPERIENCE WITH INCARCERATION.
AS AN EXAMPLE, AND THAT'S THE
STUDY IS PUBLISHED AND ON ONLINE
AGAIN THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF
NOTRE DAME, AND THERE'S A LITTLE
FOOTNOTE THERE, BUT IT'S
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO THE
CONVERSATION THAT I MET THAT YOU
MENTIONED EARLIER. UH MR WARD IN
THAT IT'S EXTREMELY COST
EFFECTIVE TO PREVENT
HOMELESSNESS, RIGHT? UH WE'RE
SEEING THAT JUST OVER $6000 PER
HOUSEHOLD, AND THIS IS A SYSTEM
THAT HAS MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY. WE
DON'T HAVE ANY HARD CAPS ON HOW
MUCH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE WERE
ABLE TO PROVIDE EACH HOUSEHOLD.
OR A LENGTH OF TIME. SO THIS IS
ACROSS ALL 6100 HOUSE, YOU KNOW,
FAMILIES THAT WE'VE HELPED OVER
THE YEARS, UM, VERY AFFORDABLE
INTERVENTION. NEXT SLIDE,
PLEASE. SO THIS IS, UH, OUR
ATTEMPT TO MEET OUR COMMUNITY
PLAN GOAL. WE HAVE A STRATEGIC
PLAN THAT'S COMMUNITY WIDE,
CALLED THE COMMUNITY PLAN TO END
HOMELESSNESS AND OUR GOAL AT THE
END OF THE FIVE YEAR PERIOD,
WHICH IS COMING UP NEXT YEAR
RAPIDLY APPROACHING IS TO SERVE
2500 HOUSEHOLDS THROUGH OUR
PREVENTION EFFORTS. SO WE'RE
GETTING CLOSE WHAT WE WANTED TO
POINT OUT HERE. UM IS THAT WE
ARE USING HOT FUNDS, UH, BOTH
THROUGH OUR COUNTY ALLOCATION AS
WELL AS OUR CITY OF SAN JOSE,
OUR LARGEST CITY IN THE COUNTY.
UM AND WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT THOSE
FUNDS IS THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO
BE USED RIGHT ALONGSIDE,
ACTUALLY ARE PRIVATE
PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS IN THERE,
MAX FLEXIBILITY WERE ABLE TO USE
THEM FOR ALL THE DIFFERENT
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE NEEDS AND
HOUSEHOLD TYPES THAT WE'RE
SERVING. WE'RE SERVING THE MOST
VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS. IN SANTA
CLARA COUNTY, AND THE FUNDS HAVE
BEEN ABLE TO BE USED REALLY,
WITHOUT RESTRICTION. NEXT SLIDE,
PLEASE. SO JUST BRIEFLY. SOME
TRENDS THAT WE'RE SEEING IN OUR
SYSTEM THAT WE FELT LIKE
IRRELEVANT. UM MORE THAN HALF OF
THE HOUSEHOLDS SEEKING
ASSISTANCE HAVE HAD A COVID
IMPACT, IN FACT, THAT NETWORK OF
PROVIDERS THAT I SHOWED EARLIER
REALLY WAS THE SPRINGBOARD FOR
OUR COVID RESPONSE WHERE WE IN
OUR COUNTY WERE ABLE TO
DISTRIBUTE OVER $85 MILLION OF
FANS, DIFFERENT FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCES. UM. UH FINANCIAL
IMPACT IS THE MOST COMMON REASON
FOR NEEDING ASSISTANCE, LOSS OF
A JOB, NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY.
I ALWAYS SAY IT'S A MATH
PROBLEM, RIGHT? PEOPLE AREN'T
MAKING ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THE
RENT. THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE.
MOST HOUSEHOLDS SEEKING
ASSISTANCE REPORT THAT THEY WILL
NOT BE STABLE, MOVING FORWARD IF
WE DON'T INTERVENE. UH THERE'S A
DEFINITELY BEEN AN INCREASE IN
SOME OF THIS IS KIND OF COMING
OFF THE TAIL OF COVID, BUT AN
INCREASE OF THREE DAY NOTICES,
PAY OR QUIT NOTICES ALL
DIFFERENT ADDICTIONS. UH AND SO
WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO THERE
IS ACTUALLY PUT PEOPLE FROM THE
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION SYSTEM
INTO THE COURTS INTO THE
EVICTION COURTS THROUGH A
PARTNERSHIP WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY
ABLE TO OFFER THE FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE IN REAL TIME THROUGH
THE FACILITATION OF THAT JUDGE
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
LANDLORD'S ETCETERA. THAT'S BEEN
A REALLY EFFECTIVE UM HOUSEHOLDS
HAVE BEEN SEEKING LARGE AMOUNTS
OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. NOT
SURPRISINGLY, BUT THERE'S
MULTIPLE MONTHS OF BACK RENT.
UM, SO THAT'S TYPICALLY THE
FIRST THING WE DO IS INTERVENE
QUICKLY AND GET THAT CAUGHT UP.
UM AND ACTUALLY NEXT SLIDE,
PLEASE, BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY A
BETTER REPRESENTATION. BUT IN
SPITE OF ALL OF OUR GROWTH, UM
IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY FOR
PREVENTION EFFORTS, KEEP IN MIND
IN 2017. WE STARTED WITH A GOAL
OF SERVING 330 HOUSEHOLDS. WE
HAD ABOUT A MILLION AND A HALF
DOLLARS. OUR CURRENT BUDGET IS
ACTUALLY JUST SHY OF $30 MILLION
TO SERVE. APPROXIMATELY 1800
HOUSEHOLDS. UM IN SPITE OF THAT,
UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT ABLE TO
HELP EVERYONE WHO NEEDS HELP IN
THE PREVENTION SYSTEM. THAT'S
REALLY WHAT THIS IS MEANT TO
REPRESENT. UH AND NOW I'M GONNA
TURN IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE
CONSUELO. THANKS CHAD. WE WANTED
TO SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME
SHARING WITH YOU. SOME OF THE
PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES. UM AND
AGAIN BECAUSE WE ARE THE COC
COLLABORATIVE APPLICANTS, AND
OUR BOARD IS PARTICULARLY
INTERESTED IN THE OUTCOMES OF
OUR PROGRAMS. WE ACTUALLY
PRODUCE A DASHBOARD EVERY MONTH.
SO WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
ONE MORE PLEASE. WE WANTED TO
SHARE JUST ONE SNAPSHOT OF OVER
THE LAST 12 MONTHS. UM, WHAT
WE'RE SEEING IN THE WAY OF
INFLOW AND HOUSING PLACEMENTS
BECAUSE IN ADDITION TO OUR
HOMELESSNESS, PREVENTION
STRATEGIES, AND CHAD MENTIONED A
LOT ABOUT THE FLEXIBILITIES THAT
WE HAVE WITH OUR FUNDING. WE
ALSO LIKE TO SEE THE IMPACT OF
THOSE DOLLARS. AND ARE WE MOVING
THE NEEDLE? SO THIS SHOWS YOU BY
MONTH OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS?
UM HOW MANY NEW PEOPLE BECAME
HOMELESS AND THEN OUR HOUSING
INTERVENTIONS ON THE PERMANENT
HOUSING SIDE, SO WE'RE REALLY
TRYING TO TACKLE TWO THINGS AT
ONCE. HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO
BUILD SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
CONTINUED TO PROVIDE RENTAL
ASSISTANCE AND PREVENTING PEOPLE
FROM BECOMING HOMELESS. SO THIS
IS KIND OF LIKE OUR STANDARD
DASHBOARD. AND THEN TWICE A YEAR
WE REPORT ON HOMELESSNESS
PREVENTION. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
AND SO YOU'LL SEE. HERE THE CHAD
TALKED ABOUT THE INITIATION OF
THE HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION
SYSTEM ACTUALLY CAME OUT OF A
LOCAL HOUSING TASK FORCE. ONE OF
THE RECOMMENDATIONS WAS TO
CREATE THE SYSTEM, AND YOU CAN
SEE THAT OUR SUCCESS IN GROWING
THAT IN THE CHART ON THE LEFT
HAS REALLY BEEN RELYING ON THE
ONE TIME DOLLARS THAT WE HAVE
RECEIVED FROM THE STATE. AND
LEVERAGING THE LOCAL WITH THE
PHILANTHROPIC DOLLARS. UM
WITHOUT THOSE HALF DOLLARS, IT
WOULD BE NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR
US TO BE SERVING AS MANY PEOPLE
AND KNOWING WHAT OUR ALLOCATION
IS, DOES ALLOW US TO PLAN FOR
THE FUTURE. SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE
HAVE THREE HAVE FOUR AND THEN
WORKING ON OUR HAVE FIVE
APPLICATION AND THAT GIVES US
SOME CERTAINTY. THEN WE CAN MAKE
COMMITMENTS TO ALL OF THE
PARTNERS THAT CHAD MENTIONED
THAT MAKE UP THE SYSTEM. SO THAT
THEY CAN HIRE AND HAVE SOME
CERTAINTY THAT THERE'S MONEY
THERE FOR THREE YEARS. UM AND
THEN THE CHART ON THE RAID AS
CHAD MENTIONED, WE LOOK AT WHAT
ARE THE BENEFITS THAT WE'RE
SEEING? WHAT ARE THE OUTCOMES?
HOW ARE PEOPLE SERVED? NEXT
SLIDE. AND DOING A BIT MORE OF A
DEEP DIVE INTO REALLY
UNDERSTANDING WHY PEOPLE BECOME
HOMELESS OR WHAT IS THE PRIMARY
SOURCE OF ASSISTANCE THAT THEY
NEED, AND IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN
TO JOB LOSS. UM AND REALLY NOT
BEING ABLE TO AFFORD TO LIVE IN
OUR COUNTY. NEXT SLIDE. OUR
BOARD ALSO ASKS US VERY SPECIFIC
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SERVICE
TRANSACTIONS AND H M I S, UM AND
HOW THOSE KIND OF MAP TO THE
OUTCOMES THAT ARE PRESENTED BY
CHAD THROUGH DESTINATION HOME IN
A MORE, UM, YOU KNOW, PERCENTAGE
WISE OF THE HOUSEHOLDS THAT HAVE
BEEN SERVED OVER THE LAST 12
MONTHS. WHAT WERE THE
INTERVENTIONS BY PERCENTAGE AND
THEN THIS DATA IS A LITTLE BIT
DIFFERENT THAN THE NUMBERS THAT
CHAD PRESENTED BECAUSE MINE ARE
THROUGH NOVEMBER 2023 AND THE
NUMBERS THAT WE HAVE THAT WE'RE
WORKING ON UPDATING RIGHT NOW
ARE THROUGH JUNE SO YOU CAN SEE
THAT DIFFERENCE. CHAD'S NUMBERS
SHOW ABOUT $6000 PER HOUSEHOLD.
THE LATEST NUMBERS ARE SHOWING
NINE AND THAT AGAIN IS BECAUSE
OF A RESULT OF THE LOSS OF AH,
THE STATE FUNDING FOR RENTAL
ASSISTANCE, EMERGENCY RENTAL
ASSISTANCE AND THE FACT THAT THE
TENANT PROTECTION ORDINANCES
HAVE BASICALLY CEASED AND WE'RE
JUST STARTING TO SEE A HIGHER
DEMAND. NEXT SLIDE. AND THEN, OF
COURSE, OUR BOARD IS ALWAYS VERY
INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING THE
DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE PEOPLE THAT
ARE SERVED. UM AND THIS GIVES
YOU JUST A SNAPSHOT OF HOUSEHOLD
TYPE. SO THE MAJORITY OF THE
PEOPLE THAT WE SERVE OUR
HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILDREN SO
ABOUT 56% OF THE PEOPLE SERVED
OVER THERE LAST YEAR WERE
HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILDREN. WE
ALSO TRACK BY AGE, RACE AND
ETHNICITY AND BY GENDER. SO WE
WON'T GO INTO DETAIL. JUST
WANTED TO GIVE YOU A SNAPSHOT OF
EVERYTHING THAT WE DO TRACK AND
THEN WHAT WE DO IS WE USE THAT
INFORMATION TO IN REAL TIME
CHANGED ANY PROGRAM DESIGNS, SO,
ESPECIALLY DURING THE PANDEMIC,
WE HAD TO RE PRIORITIZE HOW WE
FUNDED THE PROGRAM OR HOW AND
WHO WE SERVED BECAUSE THE DEMAND
WAS SO HIGH, SO WE REALLY LOOK
AT DATA EVERY MONTH. UM TO SEE
IF THERE'S ANY NEEDS TO THE
PROGRAM THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN AND
AGAIN BECAUSE OF THE FUNDING
SOURCES BEING SO NIMBLE AND
FLEXIBLE. WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT.
AND THAT IS ALL WE HAVE FOR YOU
TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY
MUCH. JUST WAITING FOR MY
SLIDES.
GREAT THANK YOU. THANKS FOR
HAVING ME NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UM
SO MY NAME IS MARY KATE JOHNSON.
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF REGIONAL
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION AT A BAY
OR AREA POLICY ORGANIZATION
CALLED ALL HOME. WE WERE FOUNDED
IN 2019 BY TO MAKE A MOSS, WHO'S
SECRETARY OF B. C S. H AND WE
ADVANCE REGIONAL STRATEGIES TO
DISRUPT CYCLES OF POVERTY AND
HOMELESSNESS, REDRESS RACIAL
DISPARITIES AND WHO'S AT RISK
FOR AND EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS AND CREATE ECONOMIC
MOBILITY FOR HOUSEHOLDS WITH
EXTREMELY LOW INCOMES? AND ONE
OF OUR MAJOR FRAMEWORKS IS THE
REGIONAL ACTION PLAN TO CREATE
RAPID AND SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS
AND UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS
ACROSS THE REGION. AND THE MEAT
OF THAT PLAN IS A STRATEGY OF
CONCURRENT INVESTMENTS THAT
ESSENTIALLY USES INTERIM AND
PERMANENT HOUSING INVESTMENTS TO
CREATE EXITS OUT OF HOMELESSNESS
AND THEN TARGETED PREVENTION
INVESTMENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY TO
PREVENT THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE
FROM GETTING PUSHED INTO
HOMELESSNESS, AND OUR FRAMEWORK
ACTUALLY OWES A HUGE DEBT TO
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, WHICH OUT
LAUNCHED ITS, UH H P S AS ITS
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION SYSTEM
AS A PILOT IN 2017, AND THAT WAS
ONE OF THE MODELS THAT WE LOOK
TO ALONG WITH. KEEP OAKLAND
HOUSE, WHICH LAUNCHES A PILOT
AND ABOUT 2018 AND OAKLAND TO
CREATE A REGIONAL STRATEGY OF
TARGETED PREVENTION, WHICH
ESSENTIALLY TARGETS RESOURCES
EQUITABLY AND EFFICIENTLY TO THE
HOUSEHOLDS THAT ARE MOST AT RISK
OF LOSING THEIR HOUSING. UM TO
BASICALLY REDRESS THE MATH
PROBLEM. NEXT SLIDE THE OTHER
MATH PROBLEM, WHICH IS THAT
WE'RE ONLY GOING TO REDUCE THE
OVERALL NUMBERS OF PEOPLE
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IF
WE'RE, UM, PREVENTING
HOMELESSNESS. AND OF COURSE
UPSTREAM WE HAVE TO, AND WE HAVE
TO ADDRESS THE MATH PROBLEM THAT
PEOPLE'S INCOMES ARE NOT KEEPING
UP WITH HOUSING COSTS. BUT IN
THE SHORT TERM WHEN WE HAVE
LIMITED RESOURCES, THE IDEA IS
TO REALLY TARGET PREVENTION
RESOURCES TO THE TO THE FOLKS
WHO ARE MOST AT RISK. NEXT
SLIDE, PLEASE. SO WHAT WE'RE
SEEING OR WHAT ALL HOME WAS
SEEING ACROSS THE IS THAT ACROSS
THE REGION, THREE PEOPLE ARE
BECOMING HOMELESS FOR EVERYONE
THAT IS HOUSED BY HOMELESS
RESPONSE SYSTEMS. AND SO THAT
THE STRATEGY IS REALLY TO TARGET
THE PREVENTION RESOURCES TO THE
PEOPLE AT HIGHEST RISK OF
HOUSING LOSS, WHICH WE CALL
TARGETED PREVENTION AND THEN OUR
GOAL WAS TO GET ALL THE COUNTIES
ROWING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, SO
TO TAKE THE MODELS THAT WERE
WORKING IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY
AND THE MODEL THAT WAS WORKING
IN THE CITY OF OAKLAND AND
REALLY BUILD REGIONAL
INFRASTRUCTURE SO THAT ALL THE
COUNTIES COULD HAVE ROW IN THE
SAME DIRECTION. UM AND MAKE, UH
CROSS JURISDICTIONAL REDUCTIONS
AND HOMELESSNESS. AH, NEXT
SLIDE, PLEASE. I WANT TO TAKE A
STEP BACK AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
PREVENTION IS A CONTINUUM. THERE
ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF
PREVENTION SUPPORTS THAT ARE
NEEDED. EVICTION PREVENTION IS A
CRITICALLY NEEDED RESOURCE. IT'S
A LITTLE BIT OF UPSTREAM OF OUR
STRATEGY BECAUSE IT'S CATCHING
HOUSEHOLDS THAT ARE STILL
LARGELY IN LEASE HOLDING
SITUATIONS. OUR STRATEGY IS
TARGETING FOLKS WHO HAVE MAYBE
LOST THEIR LEASE, AND THEY'RE ON
A SLOW SLIDE INTO HOMELESSNESS.
MAYBE SURFING ON THE LAST COUCH
THAT THEY CAN BEFORE THEY MOVING
INTO THEIR VEHICLE. THAT'S
REALLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO USE
RESOURCES FLEXIBLY TO ADDRESS. S
AND SO WE NEED THE CONTINUUM OF
PREVENTION SERVICES, AND WE
DON'T WANT TO PIT ONE
INTERVENTION AGAINST ANOTHER.
BUT THIS FLEXIBLE FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE MODEL PAIRED WITH
HOUSING STABILIZATION SERVICES
IS REALLY ESSENTIAL TO KEEP
FOLKS IN THEIR HOUSING AND
SUPPORT SYSTEM LEVEL REDUCTIONS
AND HOMELESSNESS, ESPECIALLY
WHEN IT'S PAIRED WITH
INVESTMENTS IN PERMANENT HOUSING
LIKE WE'RE SEEING IN SANTA
CLARA. SO NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO
WHAT I'LL HOME DID WAS WE
PARTNERED WITH BAY AREA
COMMUNITY SERVICES, WHICH IS A
REGIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER, AND
WE BUILT A TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
WHICH WE PILOTED DURING THE
PANDEMIC TO DISTRIBUTE TENS OF
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FEDERAL
RENTAL ASSISTANCE FUNDING IN
BOTH SAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND,
AND WE ALSO HAD A SMALL PILOT
AND FREMONT AND THAT THE
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM ESSENTIALLY
HOSTS AN ONLINE APPLICATION
WHERE HOUSEHOLDS CAN GO AND THEY
CAN APPLY FOR HELP IN SEVERAL
LANGUAGES, AND THERE'S AN
EVIDENCE BASED ASSESSMENT TOOLS
SIMILAR TO SANTA CLARA'S, WHICH
ASKS QUESTIONS ABOUT RISK
FACTORS FOR HOMELESSNESS. HAVE
YOU EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS
BEFORE? HOW OLD IS THE HEAD OF
HOUSEHOLD? ARE YOU EXITING AN
INSTITUTION, UH AND SIMILAR AND
THE ASSESSMENT TOOL GENERATES A
PRIORITY SCORE FOR THE
APPLICATIONS, WHICH ALLOWS
SERVICE PROVIDERS TO GO INTO A
CONFIDENTIAL, SECURE KIND OF
BACK END SPACE, WHERE THEY CAN
SEE THE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE
SCORING THE HIGHEST AND THEN
PROACTIVELY REACH OUT TO THOSE
HOUSEHOLDS AND OFFER OF FLEXIBLE
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE SO
PRIMARILY HELP PAYING YOUR RENT.
BUT IF THERE'S A GOOD REASON NOT
TO PAY YOUR LANDLORD DIRECTLY OR
NOT TO PAY YOUR RENT MANY
DIRECTLY THE FUNDS CAN COVER A
CAR PAYMENT SO THAT YOU CAN GET
TO WORK AND PAY YOUR RENT, SO
THE IDEA IS TO KEEP IT VERY,
VERY FLEXIBLE, UM, AND THEN ALSO
TO PAIR IT WITH HOUSING
STABILIZATION SERVICES SO THAT
WE'RE NOT GIVING EVERY HOUSEHOLD
THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY. WE'RE
REALLY WORKING WITH THEM TO
DETERMINE WHAT IS THE AMOUNT
THAT THEY NEED TO STAY HOUSED
AND THEN SUPPORT THEM WITH
CHECKS AND SERVICES TO BUDGET TO
CREATE A HOUSING STABILITY PLAN,
WHATEVER THEY MAY NEED TO GET
BACK ON A PATH TO STABILITY, AND
WE ALSO ARE PROGRAMS ALSO MAKE
LEGAL REFERRALS FOR EVERY
HOUSEHOLD FACING EVICTION.
THAT'S ANOTHER REALLY CORE
COMPONENT OF THE MODEL, AND THE
GOAL IS REALLY TO KEEP IRIS
PEOPLE HOUSED AND SUPPORT SYSTEM
LEVEL REDUCTIONS IN
HOMELESSNESS. NEXT SLIDE,
PLEASE. THIS IS JUST A SNAPSHOT
OF OUR ONLINE APPLICATIONS. UH,
NEXT SLIDE. OUR ASSESSMENT TOOL.
UM, BASICALLY UNDERSTANDS RISK
IN THREE BUCKETS. WE USED
RESEARCH TO DEVELOP THIS, AND WE
WORKED WITH ACADEMICS, INCLUDING
DR KUSHELL. UM SO WE THINK ABOUT
RISK IN TERMS OF HOUSEHOLD
COMPOSITION. SO ARE THERE YOU
KNOW, IS THERE PREGNANCY OR
THEIR CHILDREN OR YOUNG CHILDREN
IN THE HOUSEHOLD? THAT'S A HUGE
RISK FACTOR. HAS THERE BEEN A
RECENT LIFE CHANGE BIRTH DEATH
OR A DIVORCE THAT IMPACTS THE
HOUSEHOLD STABILITY AND AS THE
HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD ER, TRANSITION
, AGE YOUTH OR A SENIOR, WHICH
ALSO IMPACTS RISK? THE SECOND
PACKET IS HOUSING AND INCOME
STATUS FACTORS. SO ARE YOU
LIVING WITHOUT A LEASE? HAVE YOU
EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS
PREVIOUSLY? ARE YOU EXTREMELY
LOW INCOME AND THEN THE THIRD
BUCKET IS SITUATIONAL FACTORS
LIKE EXITING AN INSTITUTION
HAVING A CHRONIC HEALTH
CONDITION? UM, ANDREW
DOCUMENTATION STATUS FOR WHICH
WE ASK A PROXY QUESTION. NEXT
SLIDE, PLEASE. AND THEN ON THE
BACK END, WE'RE REALLY USING
TECHNOLOGY TO START TO BUILD
REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE. I'LL
SHOW YOU A MAP IN A SECOND OF
OUR PROGRAMS, BUT WE'RE REALLY
TRYING TO SET UP A PROGRAM AND,
UM AND ALL THE COUNTIES IN THE
BAY THAT DON'T HAVE ONE, AND
WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO IS KIND OF
C AND THE BACK END OF OUR
PORTAL. THIS DATA ABOUT THE YOU
KNOW THE FAMILIES THAT WERE
SERVING THE HOUSEHOLDS THAT WERE
SERVING THE DEMOGRAPHICS, THE
PAYMENT AMOUNTS AND I THINK WITH
TIME AS WE COLLECT OUTCOMES,
MOST OF THESE PROGRAMS THEY'RE
LAUNCHING IN 2023. THE PANDEMIC
WAS A SIGNIFICANT EXTERNAL
FACTOR. AND SO, UM YOU KNOW,
THEY'RE DIFFERENT PROTECTIONS IN
PLACE, AND SO, REALLY, WE'RE
STARTING TO TRACK OUTCOMES AS OF
2023. SO THIS IS A IT'S A
NASCENT SYSTEM, BUT IT REALLY
HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE KIND OF
A REGIONAL DATABASE THAT CAN
TELL US ABOUT RISKS FOR
HOMELESSNESS AND HOW PREVENTION
CAN OR IS AND ISN'T WORKING
ACROSS THE BAY AREA, SO I THINK
THAT'S IMPORTANT. NEXT SLIDE,
PLEASE. UM SO THIS IS A VERY
EFFICIENT AND EQUITABLE USE OF
VERY LIMITED RESOURCES. A LOT OF
THE A LOT OF THE COUNTIES THAT
WERE THAT WERE MOVING FORWARD
AND PARTNERING TO LAUNCH
PROGRAMS IN THEY DON'T REALLY
HAVE PUBLIC FUND. A LOT OF THEM
DON'T HAVE PUBLIC FUNDING
ALLOCATED FOR PREVENTION. AND SO
WE'RE SUPPORTING THEM TO LOOK TO
FIND THOSE DOLLARS AND THEN
BLEND THEM WITH PHILANTHROPIC
GRANTS FROM ALL HOME TO HELP GET
THESE OFF THE GET THESE PROGRAMS
OFF THE GROUND. VERY SIMILARLY
TO HOW SANTA CLARA LAUNCHED
THEIR SYSTEM IN 2017. THEY
STARTED WITH A LOT OF
PHILANTHROPY, AND THEN THEY
GRADUALLY GOT PUBLIC FUNDING
INTO THE MIX AND THEN REBALANCE
THE RATIO OF SUPPORT, SO THEY
HAVE A ROBUST MIX OF PUBLIC
FUNDING LEVERAGE WITH SOME
PHILANTHROPY. SO WE'RE YOU KNOW,
WE'RE ON THE EARLY END OF THAT,
USING THE PHILANTHROPY TO HELP
ACCELERATE THE PROGRAMS, UM AND
HELP THESE JURISDICTIONS
IDENTIFY FUNDING SOURCES. NEXT
SLIDE, PLEASE. UM SO. BASICALLY
WE ARE WE ARE LAUNCHING PROGRAMS
ACROSS THE BAY AREA. WE RE
LAUNCHED PROGRAMS. I MENTIONED
THAT WE DID PILOTS DURING THE
PANDEMIC IN SAN FRANCISCO AND
OAKLAND. WE WORKED WITH THOSE
JURISDICTIONS TO RELAUNCH
LOCALLY FUNDED PROGRAMS. SO SAN
FRANCISCO LAUNCHED IN 2023 AND
OAKLAND, LAUNCHED LATER IN 2023,
AND WE ALSO WE DID A SMALL PILOT
IN NAPA. WE ARE WE'VE LAUNCHED
IN CONTRA COSTA AND DECEMBER AND
WE'RE DEVELOPING NEW PROGRAMS IN
SONOMA AND SO LLANO COUNTIES. UM
AND WE'RE JUST EXPANDING ACROSS
THE BAY AREA AND COUNTING THE
PANDEMIC ERA PILOTS MORE THAN
16,000 HOUSEHOLDS HAVE BEEN
SERVED BY OUR PROGRAMS. NEXT
SLIDE, PLEASE. UM THESE ARE
EARLY RESULTS FROM OUR COVID 19
PILOTS. I MEAN, THIS WAS TOO
HIGH A VOLUME TO TRACK HOUSING
RETENTION FOR ALL THESE
HOUSEHOLDS, BUT WE'RE ABLE TO
SEE HOW OUR ASSESSMENT TOOL IS
WORKING WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS
DATA, SO WE RECEIVED TENS OF
THOUSANDS OF APPLICATIONS
DISTRIBUTED TENS OF MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS IN RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND
WHAT WE'RE SEEING YOU CAN SEE AT
THE BOTTOM OF THE TWO CHARTS
ACROSS THESE TWO COMMUNITIES.
YOU KNOW MORE THAN 97% OF PEOPLE
HAD INCOMES BELOW 50% OF THE
AREA MEDIAN, A SIGNIFICANT
PERCENTAGE ABOUT 37. EXPERIENCED
HOMELESSNESS. PREVIOUSLY 16% HAD
RECEIVED IN A FICTION NOTICE AND
MORE THAN THREE QUARTERS
IDENTIFIED AS BI PACK. SO THAT
TELLS US THAT OUR ASSESSMENT
TOOL IS GOING INTO THE ZIP CODES
THAT ARE HIGHLY IMPACTED BY
HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY TO THE
HOUSEHOLDS. THAT REALLY, REALLY
NEED THE SUPPORT. UM THE NEXT
SLIDE WE CAN SKIP BECAUSE THAT'S
OUTCOMES FROM SANTA CLARA COUNTY
. ALTHOUGH I DO THINK IT'S VERY
NOTABLE, UM, THAT IN THE
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL, THE
WHAT THE RESEARCHERS FOUND WAS
THAT HOUSEHOLDS HAVE GOT THIS
TIME LIMITED, FLEXIBLE FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE PAIRED WITH SERVICES,
WHERE 73% LESS LIKELY TO BECOME
HOMELESS AFTER A YEAR, WHICH
SUGGESTS THAT THIS DOESN'T JUST
WORK IN THE SHORT TERM. IT
ACTUALLY CREATES, LIKE A LIKE A
PERSISTENT EFFECT AND ACTUALLY
PUTS THESE HOUSEHOLDS BACK ON A
PATH TO STABILITY. UM AND ALSO
FOR EVERY DOLLAR SPENT ON DIRECT
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. THE
RESEARCHERS FOUND THAT THERE
WERE ABOUT $2.50 WORTH OF SOCIAL
BENEFITS. SO THAT'S UM AND, OF
COURSE, REDUCED HOMELESSNESS.
AND, UM, JUST A NOTE ABOUT ALL
HOMES, ROLES AND ALL OF THIS, WE
RAISED A POOLED PREVENTION FUND.
IT'S PRIVATE PHILANTHROPIC
DOLLARS, AND WE HAVE A CONTRACT
WITH FACTS THAT SUPPORTS THE
TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND
THE PORTALS. BASICALLY THE
PLATFORM HOSTED PORTALS IN EACH
JURISDICTION WHERE WE WHERE WE
SUPPORT A PROGRAM AND, UM WE
ALSO MAKE GRANTS TO US TO
ACCELERATE THE LAUNCHES OF THESE
PROGRAMS, AND WE WORK WITH THE
JURISDICTIONS. UM AND YOU KNOW,
WE TRY TO MAXIMIZE THE AMOUNT
THAT GOES TO DIRECT FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE. UM SO WE'RE
PROVIDING THE SUPPORT SO THAT WE
CAN CREATE SYSTEMS LIKE THIS
THAT THERE ARE TRULY REGIONAL IN
NATURE. GREAT THANK YOU FOR BOTH
PRESENTATIONS, A LOT TO ABSORB,
AND I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS
THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE COVERED, BUT
I JUST WANTED TO LIKE AT LEAST
HE'S THEM OUT FOR CLARIFICATION
AND TO UNDERSCORE SO WHEN YOU'RE
TALKING ABOUT THOSE THAT THESE
PREVENTION SYSTEMS ARE DESIGNED
TO HELP, AND I AGREE, THERE'S A
LOT MORE DEMAND OUT THERE. AND
YOU HAVE TO SORT OF KIND OF, YOU
KNOW, MAYBE USE SOME KIND OF
METRICS OR SOME KIND OF
INDICATORS ABOUT LIKE, WHO'S
GOING TO MAKE THE CUT AND WHO
YOU'RE ABLE TO SERVE WITH THE
RESOURCES YOU HAVE. HOW HAVE YOU
BEEN ABLE TO, UM MAYBE, UH,
UNDERSTAND SOME OF THOSE
INDICATORS. WHAT ARE THE MOST
SIGNIFICANT SIGNALS ABOUT
SOMEBODY WHO VERY, VERY LIKELY
WILL BECOME HOMELESS IF THEY ARE
NOT IN THE POOL OF THOSE
RECEIVING ASSISTANCE, AS OPPOSED
TO THOSE WHO MIGHT BE LESS ON
THE CUSP OR HAVE OTHER WAYS OF
SUPPORTING THEMSELVES. IT'S A
GREAT QUESTION THAT WE'RE ALWAYS
GRAPPLING WITH, UM, THE
ASSESSMENT TOOL THAT WE USE IN
SANTA CLARA COUNTY IS A
SHORTENED, MODIFIED VERSION OF
WHAT WAS CALLED THE VIA THE
PREVENTION V I SPEED AT WHICH IS
A RESEARCH BASED TOOL THAT A LOT
OF COMMUNITIES USE. WE SHORTENED
IT, UM BECAUSE AFTER A WHILE WE
FELT LIKE THE IT WAS TAKING TOO
MUCH TIME TO ASSESS FAMILIES
REALLY, AND IT WAS ASKING A LOT
OF VULNERABLE QUESTIONS. WE
SHORTENED IT FROM SOMETHING LIKE
36 QUESTIONS DOWN TO 10 AND WE
PARTNERED, UM WELL, THE
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME THAT
DID OUR STUDY HELPED US KIND OF
SHORTEN IT AND COME UP WITH A
VERSION THAT WAS THAT WAS
REASONABLY JUST AS VALID AS THE
AS THE LONGER VERSION, UM
THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE
DAME STUDY. THEY WERE ABLE TO
DETERMINE THAT, UM HOUSEHOLDS
WHO HAVE PREVIOUS HISTORY OF
BEING HOMELESS ARE MUCH MORE
LIKELY TO BECOME HOMELESS AGAIN.
THAT'S A MAJOR INDICATOR THAT
HAS SHOWN UP ACROSS MULTIPLE
DIFFERENT STUDIES. UM
INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEM. AS WELL AS LIKE
LARGER FAMILY SIZES, SO FAMILIES
WITH CHILDREN, MULTIPLE CHILDREN
, UM, TYPICALLY BECAUSE THE RENT
IS HIGHER, AND THERE'S A LOT
MORE GOING ON RIGHT A LOT MORE
COMPLEXITY IN PEOPLE'S LIVES.
EXPENSES. UM AND AH AND THEN
FAMILIES OF COLOR ARE JUST
ACROSS THE BOARD MORE VULNERABLE
, SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY
PRIORITIZED IN SANTA CLARA
COUNTY IS BASED ON INCOME LEVEL
BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF A GREAT
EQUALIZER, SO TO SPEAK. SO UM,
WE USE THE 30% OF THE AREA
MEDIAN INCOME AND BELOW THE
EXTREMELY LOW INCOME LEVEL. IS
WHAT WE CONSIDER THE MOST
VULNERABLE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND
OVER 85% OF THE HOUSEHOLDS WHO
HAVE RECEIVED HOMELESSNESS
PREVENTION SYSTEM ASSISTANTS
COME INTO THE L. A BAND. GOT IT
IS THERE. HAVE HAVE YOU BEEN
ABLE TO USE MAYBE EVEN SOME OF
YOUR OWN. ANNUAL DATA FROM A
STATE LIKE A PIT. UM, SURVEY
THAT WE DO THE MORE THE MORE
LONG FORM SURVEY TO SORT OF BACK
UP SOME OF THAT THAT DATA THAT
THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING
HOMELESSNESS, RIGHT? WHAT REALLY
PUT THEM OVER THE EDGE THAT THAT
THAT THAT CAUSED THE MOMENT OF
HOMELESSNESS. YES THAT BACK INTO
SORT OF, YOU KNOW, YOUR
PREDICTIVE MODELING. ABSOLUTELY
SO THE MODEL THAT'S USED TO
DETERMINE VULNERABILITY THAT'S
REALLY JUST TO PRIORITIZE WHO IS
THE MOST VULNERABLE TO RECEIVE
THE RESOURCES. THEN THROUGH THE
COURSE OF OUR INTERVENTION, WE
COLLECT THE DATA, SO IT'S JUST
SIMPLY NOT PRIORITIZING THE 50
OTHER CATEGORIES, THAT OF
QUESTIONS THAT WE COULD ASK AND
REALLY FOCUS ON HONING IN ON THE
10 OR 11 THAT ARE IMPORTANT.
BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW THAT THE
DEMAND IS SO MUCH HIGHER THAN
ANYTHING WE COULD EVER ACTUALLY
FULFILL. SO LOOKING AT EVERYBODY
, IF YOU'RE E L I OR BELOW 30%
OF THE AREA MEETING CAN OR BELOW
THAT AUTOMATICALLY AUTOMATICALLY
MAKES YOU VULNERABLE IF YOU'RE A
PERSON OF COLOR THAT PUTS YOU IN
, YOU KNOW, GET ANOTHER POINT.
AND SO REALLY THOSE FIVE THINGS
THAT CHAD MENTIONED THAT'S JUST
USED TO PRIORITIZE PEOPLE. BUT
THEN AFTER THAT, ALL THE DATA
THAT WE COLLECT ON REASONS WHY
WHERE WERE YOU? YOU KNOW, A LOT
OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE SEEING
NOW IS PRIOR TO NEW PEOPLE
BECOMING HOMELESS. THEY WERE
STABLE E HOUSED. LIKE SIX MONTHS
AGO. THEY WERE STABLE THE HOUSE
SO REALLY, IT'S LOSS OF JOBS AND
SOME OTHER INCIDENT THAT
HAPPENED IN THEIR LIFE. THAT
REALLY, YOU KNOW, TOOK ALL OF
THEIR MONEY, AND NOW THEY FIND
THEMSELVES REALLY AT RISK
VULNERABLE ON THE BRINK OF
LIVING IN THEIR CAR JOB LOSS
THAT WE'RE SEEING ON THE BACK
END. THAT IS OUR LOSS OF INCOME
THAT IS THE NUMBER ONE DRIVER OF
WHITE PEOPLE ARE BECOMING
HOMELESS OR WHITE PEOPLE ARE
ENTERING OUR PREVENTION SYSTEM.
AND FOR YOUR CNN, CLARE COUNTY
OR FOR THE REST OF THE REGION.
HOW DOES THIS INTEGRATE WITH H
M? I S AND THE PROGRAMS THAT
YOU'RE WORKING WITH. ARE YOU H R
U H M S INTEGRATED OR WHAT?
OTHER DATA? MAYBE IF YOU LEARNED
FROM THE SYSTEM TO INFORM THE
WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING THE
DASHBOARDS WE PRESENTED, THAT IS
ALL A SERVICE TRANSACTION IN H
M. I S AND OUR DATABASE CAN IT
CAN SHARE BASIC INFORMATION WITH
H M. I S IT'S A DIFFERENT SYSTEM
, AND IT'S MEANT TO BE A
DIFFERENT SYSTEM. WE WANT TO
MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE
STAYING OUT OF H M. I S AND SO
BASICALLY WHAT YOU CAN DO IS YOU
CAN CROSS REFERENCE YOUR H M I S
POPULATION TO ASSESS TO HELP
ASSESS SOME OF THE OUTCOMES FROM
YOUR PROGRAM SO YOU CAN
BASICALLY DO YOU CAN SERVE THE
HOUSEHOLDS AND OUR IN OUR
PLATFORM. THEN YOU CAN DO
INDIVIDUALIZED. FOLLOW UP AND OR
YOU CAN CROSS REFERENCE. H M. I
S ON AN ANNUAL QUARTERLY BASIS
YOU WHATEVER WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE
, AND SEE ACTUALLY, WHO FROM WHO
WAS SERVED WHO MAY BE ENDING UP
IN MÁS. AND THAT YOU APPOINTED
ME EARLIER. I APPRECIATE WANTING
TO KEEP THEM OUT OF, YOU KNOW,
STRONGER, STRONGER PROGRAMS AND
INTERVENTIONS. BUT I WOULDN'T
TOTALLY DISSOCIATED TOO. IT'S
IMPORTANT THAT EACH MÁS ZACHARY
AS POSSIBLE TO KNOW WHO'S
RECEIVING THIS KIND OF LIGHTER
TOUCH ASSISTANCE BECAUSE IT'S
GOING TO DRIVE A LOT OF OUR
DECISION MAKING AS FAR AS THE
RESOURCES THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO
HELP SUPPORT MORE INDIVIDUALS,
MORE FAMILIES THAT OTHERWISE
WOULD BE FALLING INTO
HOMELESSNESS JUST SOME OF THE
BACK OF THE ENVELOPE NUMBERS IF
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, WHEN
YOU SAID THE TIME 0.2 IS YOUR
SANTA CLARA PROGRAM DID YOU HAVE
AN OPEN ENDED ON THE LENGTH OF
ASSISTANCE, OR DID YOU HAVE A
PERIOD? IT WAS OPEN ENDED. OKAY
BUT YOU AND THE ALL HOME PROGRAM
WAS DEFINED PERIOD. NO OUR
MODELS ARE ACTUALLY VERY
SIMILAR. AND OUR CASE MANAGEMENT
MODEL IS VERY SIMILAR. IT'S
REALLY WHAT THE HOUSEHOLD NEEDS
TO STAY HOUSED. I'D SAY.
TYPICALLY IT'S PROBABLY BETWEEN
3 TO 6 MONTHS. ALTHOUGH SOME
FAMILIES MAY NEED MORE AND
OTHERS MAY NEED MUCH LESS. DID
YOU FIND AN AVERAGE TIME THAT
THE ASSISTANCE WAS NEEDED. WE DO
AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO ALSO
SAY THAT THE TIME LIMIT REALLY
IS DEPENDENT ON THE FUNDING
SOURCE SO DURING THE PANDEMIC
BECAUSE WE WERE USING THE
EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE, IT
WAS KEPT. THERE WAS A TIME LIMIT
. SO THE NUMBERS ARE A BIT
SKEWED, BUT TYPICALLY YOU'RE
RIGHT. IT'S BETWEEN THREE AND
SIX MONTHS. AND FOR EVEN FOR 3
TO 6 MONTHS, NOTING THAT YOU
KNOW THIS KIND OF A PROGRAM THAT
PREVENTS HOMELESSNESS. UM YOU
KNOW, IT'S COMING IN SOMEWHERE
BETWEEN SIX AND $9000. I
UNDERSTAND WHY COSTS MAY HAVE
GONE UP IN AND MORE CURRENT
NUMBERS THAT WE MIGHT SEE. BUT
JUST QUICK BACK OF THE ENVELOPE
BACK TO ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION,
YOU KNOW THAT WE'VE INVESTED $48
MILLION TO HELP 2900 INDIVIDUALS
IS COMING IN AT 16,000, AND AS
I'VE SAID BEFORE, IT'S NOT
DEMONSTRATING 100% SUCCESS FOR
FAR SHORT OF THAT, UM SO AS WE
STARTED TO COMPARE MODELS, TWO
MODELS. I JUST HOPE YOU KNOW,
ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES ARE
THINKING ABOUT THESE TWO IN THE
FORM OF WHERE ARE WE GOING TO
GET THIS BANG FOR THE BUCK AND
HELP THE MOST PEOPLE WITH
LIMITED RESOURCES? AND THEN
ABOUT YOUR FRAMEWORK? THIS
REALLY INTRIGUED ME OR 1 TO 4
KIND OF MODEL. IT'S BEEN AN OPEN
ENDED QUESTION THAT A LOT OF
LOCALS AND EVEN SOME NATIONAL I
THINK I THINK TANK HAS BEEN
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE
RIGHT RATIO. OF YOU KNOW,
PREVENTION VERSUS TRANSITIONAL
VERSUS PERMANENT ALLOCATIONS,
NOTING THAT THEY ARE INVERSELY
EXPENSIVE, RIGHT? VERY EXPENSIVE
TO BUILD, BUT WE NEED THAT FOR
THOSE PARTICULARLY WHO ARE
CHRONICALLY HOMELESS OR, YOU
KNOW, HAVE WHO ARE CURRENTLY
HOMELESS VERSUS THOSE THAT WE'RE
TRYING TO PREVENT. SO YOU NEED
SOME MIX OF EVERYTHING. I AGREE
WITH THAT. HOW ARE YOU FINDING
SORT OF THIS 1 TO 4? UH RATIO IN
COMPARISON TO MAYBE OTHER
NATIONAL EVALUATIONS OF HOW TO
BEST ALLOCATE A TOTAL POT OF
RESOURCES. THAT'S A REALLY GREAT
QUESTION. UM THE SO THE 1 TO 4
WAS DEVELOPED BY OUR REGIONAL
IMPACT COUNCIL, BASICALLY DURING
THE PANDEMIC AS WE WERE
DEVELOPING THIS REGIONAL ACTION
PLAN, AND THE NUMBERS ARE
THEY'RE NOT HARD AND FAST
NUMBERS. IT'S SORT OF A REGIONAL
RULE OF THUMB THAT HELPS US
CONCEPTUALIZE CONCURRENT
INVESTMENTS SO THAT WE CAN BE
CREATING FLOW IN OUR HOMELESS
RESPONSES. HMS RIGHT NOW ARE YOU
KNOW WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE
ENTERING HOMELESSNESS THAN WE
CAN POSSIBLY EVER HOPE TO SERVE.
WE HAVE FOLKS LANGUISHING IN THE
STREET AND WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
SUBSIDIZED HOUSING. AND SO THE
IDEA WAS REALLY TO START WITH A
BASELINE OF HOUSING SOLUTIONS.
AND, OF COURSE, YOU NEED MORE
HOUSING THAN YOU NEED TO INTERIM
HOUSING. AND THEN YOU NEED A LOT
OF PREVENTION BECAUSE IT'S IT IS
HARD TO PREDICT WHO'S GOING TO
BECOME HOMELESSNESS. HOMELESS
ALTHOUGH YOU CAN, YOU KNOW,
DISTRIBUTE THE RESOURCES
EFFICIENTLY AND EQUITABLY USING
THERE'S YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
THERE'S A LOT OF LITERATURE
ABOUT AT RISK. AND SO WE'RE
WE'RE TRYING TO DO THAT IN SANTA
CLARA COUNTY, AND ALL HOME IS
TRYING TO DO THAT REGIONALLY.
BUT REALLY, THE IDEA IS
CONCURRENT INVESTMENTS AND WE
WORK WITH JURISDICTIONS TO
REALLY LOOK AT. WE DO A HOUSING
GAPS AND INVENTORY ANALYSIS. SO
WE WORK WITH JURISDICTIONS AND
WE PROVIDE PRO BONO TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE KIND OF LOOKING OUT
THEIR INVENTORY, THEIR FUNDING
WHAT THEY HAVE WHAT THEY WOULD
NEED TO GET TO A 75% REDUCTION
AND UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS.
AND SO IT'S A IT'S A PRETTY
CUSTOMIZED ANALYSIS THAT WE'RE
DOING, BUT THE IDEA IS
COORDINATED AND CONCURRENT
INVESTMENTS AND TO REALLY ALIGN
OUR SYSTEM SO THAT THEY'RE ALSO
THAT WE'RE ALL ROWING IN THE
SAME DIRECTION TO KEEP PEOPLE IN
THEIR HOMES OR GET THEM HOMES.
PICK IT SOUNDS VERY THOUGHTFUL.
AND WHILE IT'S CUSTOMIZES OVER A
BIG AREA, A LOT OF COUNTIES A
LOT OF POPULATION, UM SO
HOPEFULLY IT'S INFORMATIVE FOR
OTHER REASONS AS WELL. THAT
MIGHT LOOK AT GENERALLY SOME
KIND OF THE SAME RATIO IS
THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT HOW TO
ALLOCATE LIMITED RESOURCES. UM I
DO HAVE ONE OTHER QUESTION THAT
THAT IS SCHEMING. I KNOW OUR
MEMBERS ARE ONTO. I THINK OTHER
OTHER MEETINGS AT THIS TIME. UM
AND IT'S NOT GOING TO COME BACK
TO ME. BUT WE'VE COVERED A LOT
OF GROUND HERE TODAY, AND I WANT
TO THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM WERE
THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM MY CO
CHAIR THAT THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF
THAT WERE BURNING SUBJECTS THAT
NEEDED TO BE ADDRESSED. ALL
RIGHT. UM WELL, THANK YOU FOR
YOUR EYE DOWN TO THE QUESTION
CAME BACK TO ME. HOW HAS YOUR
WORK INCENTIVIZED? UH SORT OF
PRIVATE. I THINK YOU TOUCHED ON
THIS BUT PRIVATE AND, UH,
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS OR THEY
IMPRESSED WITH WHAT YOU'RE
SEEING WILLING TO SORT OF
PARTNER WITH GOVERNMENT. AND
THEN HOW HAVE YOU HAD YOUR
PROGRAM ALSO MAY BE INVERSELY,
UM, CONVINCED PUBLIC AGENCIES
THAT YOU'RE WORTHY OF FURTHER
INVESTMENT. I'M SO GLAD YOU
ASKED THAT QUESTION. IT'S A
REALLY GOOD ONE. SO IN THE
BEGINNING WHEN WE HAD I MEAN OUR
STRATEGIES ARE YOU KNOW THEY'RE
THEY'RE I THINK THEY WORK. I
THINK THEY'RE VERY EFFECTIVE AND
WE WERE ABLE TO USE THEM TO
RAISE AN INITIAL PRIVATE
INVESTMENT TO CREATE THIS POOL
PREVENTION FUND. THAT WAS ABOUT
A $12 MILLION INVESTMENT,
POSSIBLY GREATER, AND THEN WE
WERE. WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO
WAS BASICALLY USE THAT $12.5
MILLION IN PRIVATE FUNDING TO
INCENTIVIZE ALMOST $34 MILLION
IN PUBLIC INVESTMENT. ACROSS THE
REGION. A LOT OF THAT WAS FROM
SAN FRANCISCO, WHICH AFTER THEIR
EUROPE FUNDS WERE EXPENDED
DECIDED TO RELAUNCH WITH A
SIMILAR WITH THE SAME MODEL,
BASICALLY USING LOCAL FUNDS, SO
THEY USED GENERAL FUNDS. THE
GROSS RECEIPTS TAX FUNDING, BUT
WE'VE INCENTIVIZED JURISDICTIONS
ACROSS THE BAY AREA TO PUT IN
PUBLIC FUNDING FOR THIS MODEL,
AND I THINK THAT IT'S A IT'S A
REALLY IMPORTANT POINT THAT
RAISING FLEXIBLE PHILANTHROPIC
RESOURCES IT'S THE START AND
THEN YOU ATTRACT THE PUBLIC
INVESTMENT IN THE PUBLIC
INVESTMENT IS WHAT CAN KEEP THIS
GOING. UM THE CHALLENGES THAT
YOU NEED SUFFICIENT RESOURCES TO
SCALE TO MEET THE NEED AND YOU
NEED TO KEEP THEM VERY FLEXIBLE.
BECAUSE IF YOU IF YOU CREATE
ARBITRARY BARRIERS AND THAT THE
COURSE OF PROGRAM OPERATIONS YOU
RISK LOSING THE PEOPLE WHO NEED
THE HELP THE MOST AND THEN THOSE
ARE THE PEOPLE WHO END UP MOVING
INTO THEIR CARS, SO YOU NEED TO
KEEP IT VERY FLEXIBLE. I WILL
SAY WE HAVE A COLLECTIVE IMPACT
MODEL, UM, AWARE, FILL IN
PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS AND
DOLLARS ARE A CORE IN SOLVING
THE PROBLEM. AND SO WE HAVE
REALLY GOOD RELATIONSHIPS IN
CHAD CAN SPEAK TO THE PRIVATE
FUNDING THAT DESTINATION HOME
HAS BEEN ABLE TO BRING IN, BUT
THEY PROVIDE RESOURCES THROUGH
THE ENTIRE CONTINUUM. WHETHER
IT'S IN INVESTING $5 MILLION TO
YOU KNOW, MAKE A HOME KEY MATCH
FOR ONE OF OUR INTERIM HOUSING
PROJECTS OR FILLING IN FUNDING
GAP ON OUR PERMANENT HOUSING. I
THINK FOR US THE STRATEGY HAS
BEEN PHILANTHROPY IS A KEY
STAKEHOLDER, AND IT ISN'T JUST A
FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT FUNDING.
BUT IT'S HONEST, ALL TO WORK
TOGETHER TO SOLVE THIS, AND SO
PHILANTHROPY IS A HUGE PARTNER
AND EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. UH
COLLECTIVE IMPACT IS KIND OF AT
THE CORE OF HOW WE OPERATE IN
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, AND, UM,
JUST TO DEMONSTRATE THROUGH THIS
PREVENTION SYSTEM IN 2017, IT
WAS ABOUT 25% PUBLIC FUNDS AND
75% PRIVATE FUNDS. UM THAT HAS
COMPLETELY FLIPPED AROUND. SO
NOW WE HAVE ABOUT 25% PRIVATE
FUNDS, PHILANTHROPIC CORPORATE
FUNDS. UM AND THE 75% PUBLIC
FUNDS. WE ALWAYS FEEL LIKE
PUBLIC FUNDS ARE GOING TO BE
AROUND A LOT LONGER THAN ANY OF
US AND, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY,
HOPEFULLY MORE SUSTAINED AND
LARGER. UM AND I DON'T YOU KNOW,
WE DON'T ALWAYS TALK ABOUT IT AT
THIS LEVEL. BUT I THINK SINCE
YOU ASKED THE QUESTION, AND IT'S
REALLY IMPORTANT, UM FOR US, YOU
KNOW, CORPORATE UH, FUNDERS LIKE
CISCO AND APPLE HAVE COMBINED TO
PROVIDE, UH OVER $100 MILLION IN
THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS TO
SANTA CLARA COUNTY AND IN
PRIVATE FUNDS, AND WITH THOSE,
UH, THEY MADE PREVENTION A
PRIORITY THAT WE REPORT OUR
OUTCOMES TO THEM AS WELL, AND
IT'S A KEY TO OUR PARTNERSHIP
AND KEEPING THIS GOING WELL,
THANK YOU FOR YOU KNOW,
HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THOSE
EXAMPLES. I KNOW THAT'S AN
OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE
. IF WE'RE GOING TO SCALE BETTER
TO DEMONSTRATE WE'VE GOT SOME
EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS HERE AND
THAT THERE WERE THE INVESTMENTS
BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE A LOT IN
THE PRIVATE SECTOR CARES ABOUT
MAKING A DIFFERENCE, BUT THEY
WANT TO KNOW THAT THAT RESOURCES
AS WE DO IN GOVERNMENT ARE GOING
TO BE GOING TO EFFECTIVE
SOLUTIONS. AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
SANTA CLARA, UM YOU'RE ABLE TO
USE HAVE FUNDING FOR SOMEBODY'S
PREVENTION MODELS. WHERE ELSE OR
IS YOUR HALF FUNDING BEING
DIRECTED? THE BALANCE OF OUR
HAVE FUNDS HAVE GONE SO WE HAVE
THE HAPPY YOUTH SET ASIDE, A
PORTION OF THAT HAS GONE TO
PROVIDE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES FOR
A FEW OF OUR HOME KEY SITES AND
THE BALANCES FOR TEMPORARY
HOUSING. OKAY SPREAD IT OUT OVER
THREE YEARS. RIGHT? GREAT WELL,
WE'VE COVERED A LOT OF GROUND. I
WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR THE
WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING IN YOUR
HOME COMMUNITIES AND BEING ABLE
TO SHOWCASE THIS FOR ALL THOSE
WATCHING TODAY, WE'VE GOT A LOT
OF WORK CUT OUT FOR US IN BOTH
OUR POLICY AND BUDGET COMMITTEE
HEARINGS IN THE MONTHS AHEAD,
BUT WE WILL CERTAINLY USE A LOT
OF THE INFORMATION THAT YOU
PROVIDED TO BE ABLE TO GUIDE US
IN RESPONSIBLE DECISIONS. THANK
YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY
MUCH. AT THIS TIME WE DO HAVE A
PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION ON THE
AGENDA SELLING BY ANYBODY IS IN
ATTENDANCE THAT WOULD LIKE TO
SPEAK ON THE MATTER. DEPENDING
ON THE LENGTH OF THE LINE. I'M A
FLEXIBLE CHAIR AND I DON'T MIND.
YOU KNOW, ONE OR TWO MINUTES,
BUT, UM WE'LL OFFER YOU WHAT
WHAT? WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE
SURE THAT YOU'RE MAKING YOUR
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
CONVERSATION TODAY. AND WHEN
YOU'RE READY, FEEL FREE TO
APPROACH THE PUBLIC MICROPHONE.
THANK YOU. SORRY. GETTING OUR
ORDER HERE. UM GOOD AFTERNOON.
MY NAME IS SIMONE CORRECTLY AND
WITH JOHN BURTON ADVOCATES FOR
YOUTH, AND I JUST WANT TO SAY
THIS IS ABOUT EVIDENCE BASED
SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS
HOMELESSNESS AND ONE OF THE
NUMBER ONE THINGS WE CAN DO WITH
PREVENT HOMELESSNESS AMONG YOUNG
PEOPLE WE'VE LEARNED FROM JUST
YOU KNOW, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE OF
HEARING FROM YOUNG PEOPLE AND
FROM ORGANIZATIONS AND ALSO FROM
RESEARCH THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT
PATHWAYS TO CHRONIC ADULT
HOMELESSNESS. BEING HOMELESS AS
A YOUNG PERSON IS THE NUMBER ONE
PATHWAY AND THAT'S ABOVE AND
BEYOND SUBSTANCE ABUSE. MENTAL
HEALTH CHALLENGES. FAMILY
BREAKDOWN, LOSS OF HOUSING, AND
SO WE DO HAVE DATA TO SHOW THAT
REALLY INVESTING IN PREVENTING
HOMELESSNESS AMONGST YOUTH IS
REALLY THE EVIDENCE BASED
SOLUTION TO ADDRESSING
HOMELESSNESS. UNFORTUNATELY IN
THE GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET
THAT HE RELEASED IN JANUARY HE'S
PROPOSING TO ELIMINATE TWO
CRITICAL PROGRAMS THAT PREVENT
YOUTH HOMELESSNESS. AMONG YOU
THAT ARE LEAVING THE FOSTER CARE
SYSTEM. I ALSO JUST WANT TO SAY
THAT HAP HAS BEEN AMAZING
RESOURCE TO ACTUALLY REDUCE
YOUTH HOMELESSNESS, SO WE WANT
TO SEE INVESTMENTS GENERALLY ON
THE SORT OF HOMELESSNESS
RESPONSE SIDE AND WE WANT TO SEE
PREVENTATIVE EFFORTS AMONG
COMMUNITIES THAT WE KNOW ARE AT
HIGHER RISK TO EXPERIENCE
HOMELESSNESS LIKE HE WAS COMING
FROM FOSTER CARE. SO THESE TWO
PROGRAMS THAT I MENTIONED ONE OF
THEM IS ADMINISTERED BY HC D.
IT'S CALLED THE HOUSING
NAVIGATION AND MAINTENANCE
PROGRAM. IT'S A $13.7 MILLION
STATE INVESTMENT, AND IT
LEVERAGES $22 MILLION OF FEDERAL
HOUSING ASSISTANCE THROUGH
SPECIALIZED HOUSING CHOICE
VOUCHERS. AND WITHOUT THAT STATE
FUNDING, NOT ONLY OUR YOUTH
UNABLE TO TURN THEIR VOUCHER
INTO HOUSING BECAUSE YOU CAN
IMAGINE BEING ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD
AND TRYING TO FIND HOUSING AND
CALIFORNIA ON YOUR OWN IS VERY
HARD. AND IT'S ALSO A
REQUIREMENT HAD REQUIRES. THESE
SERVICES BE OFFERED TO YOUNG
PEOPLE WITH THESE VOUCHERS, SO
IF WE DON'T HAVE INVESTMENT IF
WE DON'T HAVE FUNDING FOR COUNTY
CHILD WELFARE AGENCIES TO
PROVIDE THESE SERVICES IN
PARTNERSHIP WITH THEIR HOUSING
AUTHORITY. THE HOUSING AUTHORITY
IS NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO REQUEST
VOUCHERS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
LEAVING FOSTER CARE. WE'VE SEEN
A 54% INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF
VOUCHERS FOR THIS POPULATION
SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE
HOUSING, NAVIGATION AND
MAINTENANCE PROGRAM. IT WAS
EARLIER CALLED SOMETHING VERY
SIMILAR. BUT IT WAS ESTABLISHED
IN 2019. AND IF WE LOSE THAT
PROGRAM, WE LOSE A LOT OF
FEDERAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND
WE SEE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT WE CAN
LITERALLY PREVENT FROM BECOMING
HOMELESS BECAUSE WE KNOW EXACTLY
WHO THEY ARE. ENDING UP HOMELESS
, SO I JUST WANT TO PLEASE ASK
FOR THE LEGISLATURE'S
PRESERVATION OF THESE PROGRAMS.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HI GOOD
AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS TUNISIA.
JONES AND I AM A FORMER FOSTER
YOUTH. UM AND I ATTEND
SACRAMENTO STATE. UM I'M HERE
ASKING THE COMMITTEE TO
PRIORITIZE PREVENTING, UM, YOUTH
HOMELESSNESS IN THE STATE BUDGET
. UM THIS PROGRAM SERVES FORMER
FOSTER YOUTH WITH FEDERAL
HOUSING VOUCHERS FOR HOUSING
ASSISTANCE. UM UNFORTUNATELY, I
WAS NOT ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM
THIS JUST BECAUSE I WAS NOT TOLD
ABOUT IT, UM, WITHIN MY TIME
WITH IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM,
AS WELL AS LIMITATIONS IN THE
COMMUNITY WHERE NOT EVERYBODY
ACCEPTS THESE VOUCHERS. UM
PLEASE PRESERVE FUNDING FOR THE
$13.7 MILLION HOUSING AND
NAVIGATION. UM SORRY. HOUSING,
NAVIGATION AND MAINTENANCE
PROGRAM, UM, PROPOSED FOR
ELIMINATION IN THE GOVERNOR'S
BUDGET. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
GOOD AFTERNOON. UM MY NAME IS
KAREN ROMERO. I'M REPRESENTING
AN ORGAN, A NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATION, A SPIRIT NET
STATEWIDE ORGANIZATION THAT
SERVES FOSTER YOUTH AND AT RISK
YOUTH AND FAMILIES THROUGHOUT
THE STATE. UM WE IN SOME WORKING
COUNTY WE OVERSEE. I OVERSEE THE
HOUSING, NAVIGATION AND
MAINTENANCE PROGRAM. UM AND SO I
WANTED TO SPEAK TO A LITTLE BIT
OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO
WITH THE FUNDING AND JUST
SPECIFICALLY IN SAN JOAQUIN
COUNTY. UM IN THE PAST YEAR, WE
ASSISTED 74 YOUNG ADULTS WHO GOT
REFERRED TO THE PROGRAM WHO
NEEDED ASSISTANCE. UM WE'RE
HELPING THEM BOTH FIND AND
PRESERVE THEIR HOUSING. UM MANY
OF THE TRANSITION AGE YOUTH THAT
WE'RE SERVING, THEY WORK AND
THEY ARE ENROLLED IN POST
SECONDARY EDUCATION, AND THEY'RE
JUST TRYING TO NAVIGATE LIFE AS
YOUNG ADULTS, UM, WHILE
REMAINING HOUSED WITH LITTLE TO
NO SUPPORT SYSTEM. UM SOME OF
THE YOUTH THAT WE'RE SERVING OUR
ALSO PARENTS, UM, A FEW THINGS
THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO WITH
THE HOUSING, NAVIGATION AND
MAINTENANCE FUNDS, UM, ARE
CONNECTING THEM TO AFFORDABLE
HOUSING AND ASSISTING THEM WITH
THE CONFUSING PROCESS OF RENTING
AT LEAST COMPLIANCE ASSISTING
WITH RENTAL DEPOSIT AND FIRST
MONTH'S RENT, PROVIDING A SHORT
TERM MOTEL STAY WHEN THEY'RE
FACING, UM, A SHORT TERM GAP IN
HOUSING. THEREFORE KEEPING THEM
OFF THE STREETS, PROVIDING
TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE SO
THEY CAN CONTINUE TO GET TO AND
FROM WORK AND PAY THEIR RENT.
ASSISTING THEM WITH A BUDGETING
AND MONEY MANAGEMENT CONNECTING
THEM TO SERVICES THAT WILL HELP
THEM OVERCOME THE BARRIERS THAT
CAN GET IN THE WAY OF SECURING
AND MAINTAINING HOUSING. UM SO I
JUST WANT TO CLOSE BY SAYING
THIS IS A, UM, POPULATION WHO'S
DESPERATELY TRYING TO AVOID
HOMELESSNESS AND THESE FUNDS ARE
HELPING WITH THAT. THANK YOU.
GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIR. SOME
MEMBER WARD. MY NAME IS KEVIN
CLARK. I'M REPRESENTING GOOD
RIVER PARTNERS AND ALSO FORMER
FOSTER YOUTH WHO'S COMPLETELY
DEDICATED TO ELIMINATING THE
FOSTER CARE TO HOMELESSNESS
PIPELINE HERE IN CALIFORNIA. AND
AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW THE
GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED BUDGETS, UH,
PROPOSES TO ELIMINATE THE
HOUSING, NAVIGATION AND
MAINTENANCE PROGRAM. THAT'S
ABOUT $13.7 MILLION THAT WOULD
SUPPORT OVER 1300 YOUTH
THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA IN
LEVERAGING OR OBTAINING THE
HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS, AND
IT'S ALSO A PRUDENT FISCAL
POLICY OR BUDGET BUDGET PROPOSAL
, AS IT KIND OF LEVERAGE IS
ABOUT $22 MILLION IN FEDERAL
SPENDING. SO WE RESPECTFULLY ASK
THE LEGISLATURE TO REJECT THE
ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSAL FOR
THAT FUNDING. THANK YOU. GOOD
AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS PARMA.
BHATTACHARJEE AND I AM HERE ON
BEHALF OF THE CALIFORNIA
ALLIANCE OF CHILD AND FAMILY
SERVICES WE REPRESENT OVER 160
DIFFERENT COMMUNITY BASED
ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE
SERVICES TO CURRENT AND FORMER
FOSTER YOUTH. AND I WANT TO ECHO
THE SENTIMENTS EARLIER TO PLEASE
PRESERVE THE FUNDING FOR THE
HOUSING NAVIGATION MAINTENANCE
PROGRAM. UM THIS PROGRAM SERVES
OVER 1300 FORMER FOSTER YOUTH
AND KEEPS YOUTH HOUSE WHILE
LEVERAGING $20 MILLION IN
FEDERAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE,
EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AS A
YOUTH IS THE MOST PROMINENT
PATHWAY TO CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS
AND SOLVING THIS ISSUE IS IN THE
BEST INTERESTS OF THE STATE.
THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. KIM
LEWIS REPRESENTING THE
CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR YOU,
THEN I WON'T REPEAT ANY OF THE
OTHER COMMENTS AROUND OUR YOUNG
PEOPLE. BUT I DID WANT TO ADD A
COUPLE OF NEW DATA POINTS THAT I
WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU GUYS
AND WE KNOW THAT THE 18 TO 25
YEAR OLD IS THE SECOND MOST
IMPORTANT TIME FOR THE
DEVELOPING BRAIN OF A YOUNG
PERSON. AND SO WHEN WE ARE
LOOKING AT OUR YOUTH, WE NEED
THOSE DEVELOPMENTALLY
APPROPRIATE HOUSING SUPPORTS AND
SOLUTIONS TO SUPPORT THEM
BECAUSE OF THAT FACT CD JUST
RELEASED SOME NEW DATA AROUND
HOUSING STATUS LOCATIONS OF OUR
K THROUGH 12 STUDENTS AND HAD
OVER 8500 YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WERE
UNACCOMPANIED IN K THROUGH 12 IN
THE LAST FISCAL YEAR, SO BY
DIFFERENT HOUSING, STATUSES
WANTED TO SHARE THAT. I KNOW
THIS IS ABOUT EVIDENCE BASED
SOLUTIONS, AND I KNOW WE HAVE
BEEN INVESTING A LOT AROUND
DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS. VERY YOUNG
PEOPLE ARE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING
IS PROBABLY BEEN THE LEAST, UM,
PLACE THAT WE'VE SEEN INCREASES
AND WHICH ACTUALLY HAS REALLY
STRONG POSITIVE OUTCOMES. WITH
LIKE 78% OF YOUNG PEOPLE EXITING
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING TO SAFE AND
STABLE HOUSING WITH OUR YOUTH. I
KNOW RAPID REHOUSING IS LOOKED
AT AS A GROWING SPACE. BUT FOR
YOUNG PEOPLE THAT CAN SOMETIMES
BE A CHALLENGE BECAUSE MINORS
CAN'T SIGN LEASES. IT'S ALSO
WE'RE ALSO ENCOURAGING THEM TO
GO TO SCHOOL AND GOING TO
EDUCATION SO THEY MAY NOT BE
ALWAYS ABLE TO TAKE OVER THAT
SUBSIDY VOUCHER WHEN IT ENDS AND
SO TO BE ABLE TO COMPARE FOR
MARKET RATE RENTS IS SOMETIMES A
CHALLENGE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. I
WOULD SAY SAN DIEGO IS A BIG
MODEL FOR AROUND HOW THINGS ARE
WORKING AND WORKING WELL AROUND
HAVING A CONTINUUM OF SERVICES
WHERE EVERYONE KNOWS THEIR
STRENGTHS AND KNOWS WHAT WHAT
NICHE THEY FEEL AND HOW TO
SUPPORT EACH OTHER, AND THEY
HAVE SERVED IN THE LAST TWO
YEARS, USING FUNDING FROM HALF
OVER 307 YOUTH AND HAVE BEEN
ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY EXIT 143
YOUNG PEOPLE TO PERMANENT
HOUSING THROUGH THAT PROGRAM. I
THINK IN ORANGE COUNTY, I WOULD
SAY, I THINK WE HAVE SOME
STAGNATION AROUND LACK OF
TRANSITIONAL AND PLACES FOR
YOUNG PEOPLE TO GO AS MARY KATE
WAS TALKING ABOUT THE 1 TO 4
AROUND HAVING THAT PIPELINE AND
IT CONTINUUM OF SERVICES NEEDED
SO THEY'RE YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T
DON'T JUST STAY IN PLACES AND
LIKE AN EMERGENCY SOLDIER THAT
THEY HAVE PLACES TO GO, AND SO
WE DO NEED MORE SUPPORT THAN
SERVICES AROUND HAVING THAT WILL
CONTINUE ON FOR YOU. SO I'LL
STOP THERE. THANK YOU. HI THERE.
MY NAME IS RACHEL BOG WHEN I'M
WITH HULU CALIFORNIA ACTION, UM,
I WANTED TO FIRST JUST DO A PLUS
ONE TO EVERYONE MEMBERS AND
SPEAKERS WHO SPOKE TODAY ABOUT
THAT. LARGELY SPEAKING, PEOPLE
ARE ON HOUSED BECAUSE CALIFORNIA
DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH HOUSING AND
HIGH QUALITY SUPPORT PROGRAMS.
NOT BECAUSE THEY DON'T WISH TO
BE HOUSED, RIGHT? SO WE JUST
WANNA PLUS ONE TO THAT. AND AS
THIS THESE COMMITTEES ON HERE
PROPOSALS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
AIMED TO RESOLVE OUR HOUSEHOLD
THIS CRISIS. WE WANTED TO JUST
URGE THE COMMITTEES TO KEEP IN
MIND WHAT IT MEANS TO TRULY HAVE
THOSE PEOPLE IN WHAT HOUSING HOW
THAT IS DEFINED. UM HOUSING IS
EXPERTS DEFINE IT AND STATE LAW
TO IS COMPLETELY VOLUNTARY. IT
INCLUDES A LEASE WITH RIGHTS AND
RESPONSIBILITIES, TENDENCY, AND
IT ALLOWS TENANTS TO COME AND GO
AS THEY PLEASE. WE'VE SEEN A LOT
OF PROPOSALS THAT AIM TO SOLVE
HOUSE LISTENING BY HOSPITALIZING
PEOPLE ARE PLACING THEM INTO
RESIDENTIAL CARE OR OTHER
SUPERVISED AND RESTRICTED
SETTINGS, AND THAT'S NOT HOUSING
PEOPLE, ITS INSTITUTIONALIZATION
. WE KNOW THE DATA SHOWS THAT
THAT'S NOT NECESSARY FOR THE
VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO
COULD STABILIZE AND RECOVER AND
WOULD CHOOSE TO DO SO IN
COMMUNITY BASED HOUSING WITH
SUPPORT IF THAT WERE AVAILABLE
AND ALSO DOESN'T WORK KIND OF
THE DATA DOES NOT BEAR THAT OUT.
UM SO WE WANT TO ALSO NOTE THAT
ADDING SHELTER BEDS IS ENDS UP
NOT BEING THE STRATEGY TO SOLVE
HOUSEHOLDS. THAT'S BECAUSE
SHELTER IS A CRITICAL RESOURCE,
BUT IT ISN'T HOUSING, AND WE
WOULDN'T NEED SO MANY BEDS IN
THE STATE IF WE HAD HOUSING FOR
THE FOLKS WHO ARE CURRENTLY IN
THOSE BEDS TO MOVE TO, UM SO
JUST ALWAYS WANT TO BE THINKING
ABOUT HOUSING AND CREATING MORE
HOUSING IS THE NORTH STAR AND
REMEMBERING WHAT HOUSING IS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOOD
AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS LOUIS
BROWN WITH THE CORPORATION FOR
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. THANK YOU
FOR HOLDING THIS HEARING. UM I
JUST WANTED TO LIFT UP FOR YOU A
BILL THAT REFLECTS OR A CONCEPT
THAT WAS RAISED TODAY EVIDENCE
BASED INTERVENTION OF RENTAL
ASSISTANCE. SO SP 37, WHICH WILL
BE COMING BEFORE THE HOUSING
COMMITTEE, UM AND WE'LL
HOPEFULLY BE CONSIDERED BY THE
BUDGET COMMITTEE AS WELL, UH,
WILL PROVIDE WOULD CREATE A
RENTAL ASSISTANCE PILOT PROJECT.
UH FOR OLDER ADULTS AND PEOPLE
WITH DISABILITIES, SO BY
PROVIDING PEOPLE WITH FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE, UH, TO HELP TO PAY
THEIR RENT WILL BE ABLE TO, UH,
SP 37 WOULD KEEP THOSE WHO
VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN THEIR
HOMES AND HELP TO PREVENT
HOMELESSNESS. SO AS WE ALL KNOW,
UM UH, FOLKS ARE FOLLOWING INTO
HOMELESSNESS. THAT RACE WE
HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE. THAT'S
PARTICULARLY THE CASE FOR OLDER
ADULTS WHO ARE THE FASTEST
GROWING SUB POPULATION OF
HOMELESS POPULATION. UH AND AS
WE'VE HEARD TODAY, PARTICULARLY
FOR THE LAST PANEL WRITTEN
RENTAL ASSISTANCE IS EFFECTIVE
SOLUTION. POWERFUL SOLUTION FOR
PREVENTING HOMELESSNESS. WE'VE
HAD STUDIES THAT HAVE SHOWN THAT
OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS THAT
IF THEY HAD 3 TO $500 MORE AT
THE TIME THAT THEY BECAME
HOMELESS, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE
BECOME HOMELESS IN THE FIRST
PLACE. UH AND SO SP 37 WOULD
ALLOW THE STATE TO IMPLEMENT AND
TEST THIS INTERVENTION FOR THESE
TWO PARTICULAR POPULATIONS AT A
STATE LEVEL AT THE STATE LEVEL.
UM, THE WE ESTIMATE THAT THE
PROGRAM THE PILOT PROJECT WOULD
COST ABOUT OVER THREE YEARS. $25
MILLION TOTAL. WE UNDERSTAND
THAT IN THIS BUDGET CLIMATE, UM
IS IT'S DIFFICULT FOR THE
LEGISLATURE TO TASK LEGISLATURE
FOR ANY NEW FUNDING. UM
ESPECIALLY, WE APPRECIATE THE
POSITION YOU'RE IN HAVING TO
DECIDE BETWEEN IMPORTANT
PROGRAMS AND IMPORTANT PROGRAMS,
BUT WE WOULD SAY THAT WE BELIEVE
THAT THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE FROM
STRATEGY UH YOU KNOW IS A COST
EFFECTIVE ONE AS WE'VE TALKED
ABOUT TODAY, SO ULTIMATELY IT
WILL HELP TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM
GOING INTO HOMELESSNESS. UH YES,
IN THERE BY, UM UH, IT FROM
GOING INTO A MORE COSTLY UH,
HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE SYSTEM.
THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON.
SHARON REPORT WITH THE S H, UM
REALLY APPRECIATE YOU HOLDING
THIS HEARING AND FOR ALL THE
GOOD WORK PUT INTO THE ANALYSIS,
UM ALL EVIDENCE SHOWS HOUSING
SOLVES HOMELESSNESS AND YET LESS
THAN 25% OF THE STATE FUNDED
PROGRAMS AROUND HOMELESSNESS ARE
GOING FOR HOUSING. AND SO WE
DON'T THINK IT MEANS CUTTING
BACK FLEXIBILITY. BUT JUST
MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE
PRIORITIZING HOUSING AND OUR
SOLUTIONS TO HOMELESSNESS. WE
ALSO LACK ONGOING FUNDING,
MAKING THESE PROGRAMS FAR LESS
EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE. UM NO
JURISDICTION HAS BEEN ABLE TO
REDUCE HOMELESSNESS WITH ONE
TIME FUNDING ALLOCATIONS THAT
JUST HASN'T HAPPENED. IT'S NOT
POSSIBLE. UM AND SO WE WOULD ASK
THAT THE LEGISLATIVE LEGISLATIVE
LEADERS REALLY BE LOOKING AT IN
THE FUTURE. SOME REVENUE SOURCES
FOR ONGOING FUNDING FOR HOUSING
AND HOUSING BASED SERVICES. UM
AND WE DO SEE EVIDENCE THAT
SHOWS THAT LESS THAN 2.5% OF THE
STATE BUDGET IF IT'S DEDICATED
OVER 12 YEARS, ONGOING WAY THAN
IT CAN SOLVE HOMELESSNESS. WE
CAN'T SOLVE HOMELESSNESS IN
CALIFORNIA. UM WE ALSO REALIZED
THE DIFFICULTY OF THIS
INVESTMENT THIS YEAR AND SO
WE'RE ASKING FOR LEVEL FUNDING
FOR HAP. WE DO THINK THAT THAT
PROGRAM HAS REALLY BEEN CRITICAL
AND KEEPING A LOT OF PEOPLE OFF
THE STREETS AND HELPING A LOT OF
PEOPLE GET OFF THE STREETS AND
INTO EITHER SHELTER OR HOUSING.
UM, CONSIDERING THE COST OF
HOUSING IS THE DRIVER OF
HOMELESSNESS AND MORE PEOPLE ARE
FALLING INTO HOMELESSNESS THAN
EVER BEFORE. WE ALSO SUPPORT
FUNDING FOR TARGETED PREVENTION
AND SOLUTIONS TO HOMELESSNESS,
INCLUDING, UM, LANDLORD
INCENTIVE PROGRAMS THAT
ASSEMBLYMEMBER'S RAISE HAS
PROPOSED. UM WE ALSO ALIGN ARE
THE COMMENTS OF JOHN BURTON
ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH AND OTHER
YOUTH ADVOCATES. AND UM WE
REALLY HOPE THAT YOU TAKE INTO
CONSIDERATION THE NEED FOR
ONGOING FUNDING IN THE COMING
YEARS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HI
JUSTIN GARRETT WITH THE
CALIFORNIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF
COUNTIES REPRESENTING ALL 58
COUNTIES REALLY APPRECIATE THIS
HEARING TODAY AND THE
OPPORTUNITY FOR SO MANY LOCAL
LEADERS TO OUTLINE WHAT'S
WORKING RIGHT NOW, WITH THE
HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE IN
CALIFORNIA. IN PARTICULAR. I
WANT TO REINFORCE THE IMPORTANCE
OF HAVING FUNDING. THAT IS OUR
TOP BUDGET ASKED THIS YEAR
RELATED TO HOMELESSNESS IS
CONTINUING THAT PROGRAM
PROVIDING IT WITH ONGOING
FUNDING. AS A AS THE PANELISTS
INDICATED TODAY. IT'S JUST BEEN
SO ESSENTIAL TO PROGRESS AT THE
LOCAL LEVEL, AND WE MUST
CONTINUE IT TO SEE THAT
PROGRESS. CONTINUE UM I WOULD
ALSO ECHO THE COMMENTS FROM
EARLIER PUBLIC COMMENTERS ABOUT
OPPOSITION TO CUTS TO THOSE
PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT FOSTER
YOUTH. UM, LAST YEAR HE SACKED
DEVELOPED AND WHAT WE CALL OUR
AT HOME PLAN, WHICH OUTLINES THE
DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE
HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE SYSTEM,
AND WE SUPPORTED SEVERAL BUDGET
INVESTMENTS CONSISTENT WITH THAT
PLAN, A LOT OF WHICH ARE BEING
IMPLEMENTED THROUGH HALF ROUND
FIVE, AND THE REGIONAL PLANS
UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW, AND SO WE
JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WE'RE
REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO
WORKING WITH BOTH COMMITTEES
THIS YEAR ON THE FULL RANGE OF
BILLS AND BUDGET ITEMS THAT
SPANNED THE FULL RANGE OF THE
HOMELESSNESS CRISIS. EVERYTHING
FROM PREVENTION TO HOUSING THOSE
SERVICES. THANK YOU. CONNECTION
SINCE 1988. WE'VE BEEN UPLIFTING
THE VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE
WHO'VE EXPERIENCED FOSTER CARE
ACROSS THE STATE. WE ARE A YOUTH
LED ORGANIZATION. UH, I
PERSONALLY WORK WITH YOUTH IN
SACRAMENTO PLAZA, YOLO BUTTE AND
SURROUNDING COUNTIES. UM AND I
JUST WANNA, UM ECHO SOME OF THE
SENTIMENTS THAT WERE SHARED
ALREADY BY THE FIRST FEW
COMMONERS ABOUT THE HOUSING, UH,
MAINTENANCE AND NAVIGATION
PROGRAM, WHICH IS A $13.7
MILLION PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS
COUNTIES TO PROVIDE THOSE, UH,
REALLY CRITICAL, SUPPORTIVE
SERVICE. THAT ALLOW FOSTER YOUTH
IN TRANSITION AGE YOUTH TO
ACCESS FEDERAL HOUSING VOUCHERS
TO PROVIDE THEM HOUSING. UM ONE
OF THE THINGS THAT I HEARD, UM
FROM ONE OF THE SPEAKERS TODAY.
DR KUCHEL WAS HOW IMPORTANT IT
IS TO PROVIDE BOTH HOUSING AND
SUPPORTIVE SERVICES SO THAT
$13.7 MILLION IS IMPORTANT TO
PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES AND
THAT ENABLES US TO ACCESS THAT
$22 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING
THAT ACTUALLY ALLOWS US TO
PROVIDE HOUSING. UM IN ADDITION,
I WANNA ECHO THE SENTIMENTS THAT
DIRECTOR HUANG SAID EARLIER
ABOUT HOW COUNTERPRODUCTIVE IT
IS TO INTERRUPT, UM THESE
FUNDING SOURCES WHILE THEY'RE IN
THE MIDDLE OF IMPLEMENTING AND
ADDRESSING THESE ISSUES. UM I'M
SEEING THE ROLL OUT IN
SACRAMENTO COUNTY AND BUTTE
COUNTY OF FY. I VOUCHERS AND
ALAMEDA COUNTY AND L A COUNTY. I
PERSONALLY KNOW THESE FOSTER
THAT ARE ARE FORMER FOS THAT ARE
FINALLY ABLE TO SECURE HOUSING.
AFTER YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN
HOUSING, INSTABILITY AND SO
INTERRUPTING THESE PROGRAMS NOW,
UH, WITH THE GOVERNORS PROPOSED
IS GOING TO COST US LATER. DOWN
THE LINE. UM AND 1300 FOSTER
YOUTH. FORMER FOSTER YOUTH ARE
CURRENTLY SERVED BY THAT $13
MILLION. SO I ASK YOU ALL TO
PROTECT FALSE YOUTH IN THIS
BUDGET. UM, BOTH THE YOUTH THAT
ARE CURRENTLY TRANSITIONING OUT
OF FOSTER CARE, IN ADDITION TO
THE GENERATIONS THAT ARE TO COME
BY PROTECTING THAT $13.7 MILLION
OF HOUSING, MAINTENANCE AND
NAVIGATION, THANK YOU. THANK YOU
AND SEE NÓ OTHER MEMBERS OF THE
PUBLIC LINE THAT THIS WILL
CONCLUDE OUR PUBLIC COMMENT, UM,
DO APPRECIATE EVERYBODY THAT,
UH, CAME TO CONTRIBUTE TODAY ON
BOTH OUR PRESENTERS AND MEMBERS
OF THE PUBLIC. UH, DEEPLY
GRATEFUL FOR YOUR, UH, INSIGHT
AND INFORMATION THAT'LL GUIDE
SOME OF THE DECISION MAKING THAT
, UM, BOTH OF OUR COMMITTEES
HAVE IN FRONT OF US. UH, I THINK
ONE THING THAT UNDERSCORES, UM
SOME OF THE EVIDENCE TODAY IS
THAT WE HAVE. WE DO HAVE
PROGRAMS THAT ARE WORKING, UM,
TOWARDS, UH, THEIR RESPECTIVE
ENDS OUT THERE, AND WE'RE
GRATEFUL FOR THOSE. AND TO KNOW
THAT WE ARE HAVING CONVERSATIONS
WHERE SOME OF THEM MAY BE
SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED IN THEIR
FUNDING. OR UH OR FULL ON
ELIMINATED, UH, WITH THEIR
FUNDING, UH, FOR ME IS, UM IS I
WANNA SAY IT, IT FEELS LIKE A
NONSTARTER. BUT UH, SOMETHING
THAT WILL HAVE, UM, DIRE IMPACTS
FOR ALREADY A VERY SIGNIFICANT
CRISIS FACING ALL OF OUR
COMMUNITIES ACROSS CALIFORNIA.
SO UM, THE EVIDENCE IS HELPFUL.
UH, I APPRECIATE. UM, MADAM
CHAIR. UH, THE HEARING THAT
WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HOLD HERE
TODAY. UH, TURN IT BACK OVER TO
YOU. THANK YOU TO ASSEMBLY
MEMBER CHRIS WARD AND FOR ALL OF
YOU WHO PARTICIPATED AND
PROVIDED TESTIMONY. THIS IS A
CRITICAL TIME IN CALIFORNIA AS
WE, UH, FACE, UH, ENORMOUS
BUDGET DEFICITS AND WE'LL HAVE
TO MAKE, UH WHAT COULD BE IS
VERY CRITICAL DECISIONS THAT WE
KNOW WILL IMPACT IN INDIVIDUALS.
YOUR TESTIMONY MEANS A LOT AND
AS WAS SAID BY MY COLLEAGUE, UH,
KNOWING THAT, UH, THERE ARE
PROGRAMS THAT ARE DOING WHAT WE
EXPECT OF THEM AND MORE MEANS,
UH, A LOT TO ME PERSONALLY, AS
WE KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE
LIMITED DOLLARS, AND WE'RE GOING
TO HAVE TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS.
BUT AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR COMING
AND STAY ENGAGED. THANK YOU.