Item 53 - Approve Local Homelessness Action Plan and HHAP3 Application

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Vouchers. Coordination also includes the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) Program of which 280 VASH vouchers are tied to the Veteran CES list. Each tenant - based voucher and project -based voucher administered by the Santa Ana Housing Authority for a homeless individual or family (including VASH-eligible homeless veterans) is administered in coordination with CES. As an entitlement jurisdiction through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Santa Ana receives a direct allocation for Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding for homeless services. All funded organizations receiving ESG and ESG-Covid funding by the City are required to participate in the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) as well as the Coordinated Entry System. Santa Ana, along with other entitlement jurisdictions in the County, created an ESG Collaborative several years ago to coordinate ESG funding among various non -profits in the area and to share valuable information. While Santa Ana has developed strong approaches to end homelessness, we must also address those who slip through the cracks and become homeless for the first time. Turning off the faucet to homelessness is essential. This work will require collaboration at all levels of government between multiple systems: housing, health care, criminal justice, child welfare, education, domestic violence, immigration, labor, and others. We must work together to create systems to intervene and keep individuals housed. We must provide needed services and ensure that homelessness is unrewarded and rare. It is this integrated service plan that will be most effective in addressing homelessness. Santa Ana has partnered with the United Way on a regional landlord incentive program to address one of the most significant barriers facing our homeless voucher holders: finding and leasing a unit. The landlord incentive program provided deposits for damage claims, unit holding fees, and other landlord incentives for 25 emancipated foster youth through the Foster Youth to Independence Program and 50 homeless individuals through the Mainstream Voucher Program. The City of Santa Ana is excited about the future partnership with the County's new Be Well OC program. In January 2021, Be Well OC unveiled its first mental health and wellness campus located in the City of Orange, just north of Santa Ana. The 60,000 square feet, state of the art facility provides mental health, crisis stabilization and 0