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Community Development Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/community-development <br />Item # 12 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />March 19, 2024 <br />TOPIC: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Round 5 Application <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Approve the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Round 5 <br />Application <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Approve the submission of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) <br />Program Round 5 Application to receive funding from the State of California’s Homeless <br />Coordinating and Financing Council (HCFC) to address homelessness. <br />GOVERNMENT CODE §84308 APPLIES: No <br />DISCUSSION <br />On September 29, 2023, the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council (HCFC), <br />now called the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), announced <br />the availability of Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Program <br />Round 5 grant funding. This $1 billion flexible block grant program is available to large <br />cities, counties, and continuums of care to address homelessness challenges in ways <br />that best meet their local needs. HHAP Round 5 is established for the purpose of <br />organizing and deploying the full array of homelessness programs and resources <br />comprehensively and effectively, and to maintain existing federal, state, and local <br />investments towards long-term sustainability of housing and supportive services. To <br />accomplish these goals, HHAP Round 5 requires applicants to create and implement <br />Regionally Coordinated Homelessness Action Plans and to apply together. The <br />completed Region Homelessness Action Plan incorporates each large city, county, and <br />Continuum of Care’s (CoC) performance measurements, key actions, and plans but <br />allows each entity to receive the allocation directly by submitting its own budget. <br />While the eligible uses for HHAP-5 remain largely unchanged from previous rounds, the <br />HHAP-5 statute reorganizes eligible uses into three main buckets: (1) costs that support <br />permanent housing; (2) costs that support interim housing; and (3) costs that support <br />service provision and systems support. This change represents a strategic alignment <br />aimed at amplifying the focus on regional coordination, permanent housing, <br />sustainability, and person-centered services. The overarching objective of HHAP funds