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Adopt a Resolution Opposing the Yale Street Shelter <br />February 18, 2020 <br />Page 2 <br />To articulate the City's efforts to address homelessness, on October 1, 2019 the City Manager <br />introduced a Homeless Strategic Plan that includes a four -step action plan: <br />1. Clean: reduce negative impacts to the community and ensure that Santa Ana is clean and safe <br />2. Outreach: be persistent in our contact with anyone experiencing homelessness <br />3. Housing: reduce the number of Santa Ana's unsheltered homeless <br />4. Communication: have an engaged and informed community regarding homelessness and <br />homeless solutions <br />Although the Homeless Strategic Plan was only recently announced, the City has taken an active role <br />to support ending homelessness in Santa Ana. For example, in January 2018, the City formed the <br />cross -departmental Quality of Life Team (QOLT), a multi -disciplinary working group consisting of <br />various City departments and external organizations to increase the effectiveness of homeless <br />support services through real-time collaboration. The QOLT is based on a framework of best practices <br />utilized by several cities throughout the United States. The QOLT began as a 30-day pilot and has <br />since proven to be effective. In January 2020 alone, QOLT has accomplished the following: <br />0 725 contacts with individuals experiencing homelessness <br />0 495 of these individuals were not from Santa Ana; 230 were from Santa Ana <br />0 369 individuals walked away from QOLT representatives <br />0 305 citations were issued <br />0 155 arrests were made <br />0 21 individuals entered The Courtyard Shelter <br />0 15 individuals entered The Link Interim Emergency Homeless Shelter <br />In addition to providing homeless support services, the City hosts 785 emergency shelter beds (in <br />addition to a 200-bed winter shelter), 408 units of homeless supportive housing, and as of last fall <br />2019, approximately 1,600 units of affordable housing (with 857 more to be completed in the future). <br />Further, Santa Ana is home to several nonprofit organizations that provide homeless support services. <br />These include, among others, the following: WISEPlace, a women's transitional housing program that <br />provides 60 beds along with supportive services for women experiencing homelessness; the <br />Salvation Army Hospitality House, a 75-bed residential emergency shelter for homeless men located <br />in Santa Ana; and City Net, a nonprofit social services provider that actively seeks out homeless <br />individuals and works to place them in housing and connect them with resources to help them get <br />back on their feet. <br />Homelessness in Orange County <br />The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires local jurisdictions to <br />complete a biennial count of all individuals experiencing homelessness in their community on a single <br />point -in -time during the last ten days of January. Orange County's 2019 Sheltered Point -In -Time <br />Count took place on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 and the Unsheltered Point -In -Time Count took place <br />on January 23 and 24, 2019. The 2019 Point -In -Time Count produced the following results: <br />55E-2 <br />