Item 23 - Public Hearing for FY 2025-29 5 Year Plan, Annual Action Plan for CDBG, HOME, and ESG Programs

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FY 2025-29 Five-Year Consolidated Plan, FY 2025-26 Annual Action Plan and Budgets for CDBG, HOME, and ESG Programs June 3, 2025 Page 2 5 0 7 3 programs. These federal funds provide for the development of affordable housing, street improvements, park and public facilities improvements, economic development, code enforcement, nonprofit public services, the expansion and retention of businesses, and for the delivery of services for individuals experiencing homelessness. In general, the Five-Year Consolidated Plan describes how the City will invest and allocate these limited federal funds for and on behalf of the community. The Five-Year Consolidated Plan covers the five-year period from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2029. It also includes the first Annual Action Plan for the one-year period from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 (e.g. it includes the Annual Plan for the first year of the Five-Year Plan). These two planning documents are described in detail below. Fiscal Year 2025-29 Five-Year Consolidated Plan The Fiscal Year 2025-29 Five-Year Consolidated Plan is the City of Santa Ana’s Strategic Plan for the investment of annual allocations of CDBG, HOME, and ESG funds from HUD during the five-year period covered by the Consolidated Plan beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2029 (Exhibit 1). The Five-Year Consolidated Plan (Plan) outlines the overall strategy that the City intends to carry out over the next five years and identifies the objectives and outcomes to be accomplished with that strategy. In consideration of limited grant resources, the Strategic Plan within the Consolidated Plan outlines the areas and population segments with the greatest level of need for a particular program or activity and intends to invest grant resources in high leverage opportunities where data suggests that the City will be able to maximize the impact of every dollar. The Strategic Plan identifies the City’s priority needs, including the rationale for establishing allocation priorities, and specific measurable goals to be addressed during the five-year period covered by the Consolidated Plan through activities to be implemented as part of the five Annual Action Plans using CDBG, HOME, and ESG Program funds. The Consolidated Plan also contains a Needs Assessment and Market Analysis that provide insight into the different levels of need in the community and the market in which grant-funded programs will be implemented. The Needs Assessment incorporates national data from the 2020 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, the 2016-2020 Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS), and the 2023 and 2024 Point-In-Time (PIT) Homeless Counts in addition to data sets from HUD, the State of California, and local/regional data. Based on the Needs Assessment and Market Analysis, the Strategic Plan identifies six high priority needs to be addressed using the City’s CDBG, HOME, and ESG Program funds. The six priority needs for the City include: •Expand the supply of affordable housing •Preserve the supply of affordable housing •Access to and supply of public services •Increase access to and supply of homeless services and facilities •Promote economic opportunity