55C - RESO OC HOUSING FINANCE JOINT POWERS

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Exhibit 4 Additional Information about Homelessness, Supportive Housing, and more . The following section attempts to give additional background on homelessness and housing issues related to the Orange County Housing Finance Trust. Homelessness Defined. There are different definitions depending on which Federal agency is looking at the issue. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services says this: A homeless individual is... "an individual who lacks housing (without regard to whether the individual is a member of a family), including an individual whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility (e.g., shelters) that provides temporary living accommodations, and an individual who is a resident in transitional housing." A homeless person is an individual without permanent housing who may live on the streets; stay in a shelter, mission, single room occupancy facilities'abandoned building or vehicle; or in any other unstable or non -permanent situation. An individual may be considered to be homeless if that person is "doubled up,"... where individuals are unable to maintain their housing situation and are forced to stay with a series of friends and/or extended family members. In addition, previously homeless_individuals who are to be released from a prison or a hospital may be considered homeless if they,do not have a stable housing situation to which they can return. A recognition of the instability of an individual's living arrangements is critical to the definition of homelessness. From the US Department of Housing and Urban Development: Homelessness is where (1) an individual or family lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, meaning. (i) Has a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not meant for human. habitation; (ii) Is living in a publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements (including congregate shelters, transitional housing, and hotels and motels paid for by charitable organizations or by federal, state and local government programs); or (iii) Is exiting an institution where (s)he has resided for 90 days or less and who resided in an emergency shelter or place not meantfor human'habitation immediately before entering that institution. Some persons are chronically homeless, meaning that they have a disabling condition and have been homeless (sheltered or unsheltered) for at least twelve consecutive months OR they have had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years with a total duration of at least one year of homelessness. Local Trends. In Orange County, our data associated with homelessness comes primarily from the biennial "Point in Time Count." While a recent PIT Count was conducted in late January 2019, data from that count will not be available for a few more months. Past data (table sources below are from 2-1-1 OC's Final Report on the 2017 PIT Count) shows the following numbers of homeless persons (meaning living in shelters, living on the streets, or living out of vehicles): 55C-35