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Homeless Services Quarterly Report for July - September 2018 November 20, 2018 Page 8 9. Santa Ana Approves City/County Partnership for Courtyard Transition On September 4th, 2018 the City Council of Santa Ana approved the Memorandum of Understanding with the County of Orange to transition the Courtyard Emergency Homeless Shelter to a more suitable location and to expand homeless shelter beds for the City of Santa Ana. This agreement will mitigate the negative impacts of homelessness in Santa Ana, will provide Santa Ana unsheltered homeless with shelter and supportive services, establish a long- term collaborative effort between the City and County, minimize the migration of homeless individuals into Santa Ana, ensure available bed capacity for Santa Ana's use, and discontinue the Santa Ana Armory program. 10. Santa Ana Presents on Community Safety Hosted by Urban Peace Institute On September 25th, 2018 the Urban Peace Institute hosted a Community Safety Forum highlighting topics on Homelessness, Immigration Enforcement, Youth and Gang Crime, Police and Community Relations. An audience of adult and youth residents, local organizations, City Staff, and other stakeholders gathered to listen to panelist. The panelist included Santa Ana Police Chief David Valentin and Santa Ana Unified School District Police Chief Anastasia Smith, Hafsa Kaka, Homeless Services Manager, Juan Plascencia Youth Resident, Steven Kim from Project Kinship and representation from Neutral Ground. The event highlighted the several efforts within different City departments that impact community safety and improve Quality of Life. 11. Santa Ana and Housing the Homeless On Tuesday, September 11th, Governor Brown signed AB 448 to create the first-ever Orange County Housing Finance Trust, a regional joint powers authority that would allow the County and its 34 cities to collectively compete for public and private funding to develop permanent supportive housing. The Housing Trust will be able to issue bonds and leverage private dollars; it will be governed by a Board of Directors to include City and County representatives and community members. The legislation grew out of the simultaneous efforts of former Santa Ana Mayor and former Irvine Company Vice -President Dan Young to secure $100 million in private funding to create 2,700 units of permanent supportive housing. To date, the City of Santa Ana has developed 82 units of permanent supportive housing (PSH), including 71 PSH units at the Orchard and 11 PSH units at the Depot at Santiago. We also have 131 additional PSH units in the pipeline which include 75 units for homeless veterans at the Santa Ana Veterans Village project and 56 units for chronically homeless individuals at Aqua Housing. Both developments are expected to break ground early next year. In total, Santa Ana has 213 PSH units developed or in the pipeline. In February 2018, a regional goal was established for each City and the County to develop a proportional amount of PSH units based on their population size. Santa Ana was allocated 289 PSH units based on our population size (relatively Anaheim was allocated 303 and Irvine was allocated 226 PSH units to develop). Santa Ana is well on its way to achieving this goal of 289 before every other City in Orange County. 19G-8