Item 29 - Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Annual Action Plan and Budgets for CDBG, HOME and ESG Programs

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City of Santa Ana - 63 - 2022 Annual Action Plan Actions planned to reduce the number of poverty-level families The underlying objective of this Consolidated Plan is focused on reducing the number of families and households in poverty and lessening the impact of poverty on those households. The City will take a multi-faceted approach to reduce the number of poverty-level families located within the City and improve the quality of life for extremely low-income households in the City. 1. Partner with and leverage local job training programs focused on supporting residents prepare for and access living wage job opportunities. 2. Through the City’s housing programs, it will reduce the number of cost burdened households living in the City, allowing them to allocate personal resources to other critical household needs. 3. Public services will be targeted to address critical needs of low-income and vulnerable residents through the provision of programming, transportation, education, childcare and other key needs that are identified by the City and its stakeholders. Services such as these are components to assist individuals to be better suited to secure and retain living wage employment. 4. Homeless assistance, including prevention, will provide critical services to extremely low-income households in need of immediate assistance and support to be better suited and able to take steps to identify sustainable housing and employment options. 5. Improving public facilities eliminates existing facilities and infrastructure that negatively impacts residential neighborhoods. Actions planned to develop institutional structure To continue to develop the institutional structure among the City, nonprofit stakeholders and other local and regional stakeholders, the City will regularly communicate and coordinate program objectives, services and activities with all stakeholders. The City will work to expand the coordination and communication among partners through invitations to participate in the Consolidated and Action Plan process as well as working to create synergies and partnerships between different service providers during the implementation of programs and activities. Actions planned to enhance coordination between public and private housing and social service agencies Through the ESG program, the City will continue to partner closely with neighboring jurisdictions as well as service and housing providers operating in the City and County. The City will continue to strive to encourage a unified approach to the development and delivery of housing and social service programs to effectively address the needs of homeless and extremely low-income households in the community. In the coming year, the City will continue to build off these successes to integrate additional service and housing providers into this coordinated partnership. EXHIBIT 1