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2012/13 12010/11- 2014/15 CITY OF SANTA ANA CONSOLIDATED PLAN ACTION PLAN homelessness prevention assistance to an estimated 392 individuals via short-term rent and mortgage/utility assistance. SHELTER The City will provide funds to shelter providers via the ESG and HOPWA programs. These funds will help offset the costs of providing emergency shelter, transitional housing and support services (e.g., legal assistance) for Santa Ana's homeless (and the region's homeless with HIV/AIDS with HOPWA funding). Emergency shelters are geared toward providing immediate housing to persons without shelter. Stays in emergency shelters are typically limited to a short period of time (1 to 90 days). When blended with support services, this environment can help stabilize a household in order to ascertain interim housing and service needs. The critical link between homelessness and self-sufficiency, is often provided by transitional housing programs. In this setting, homeless individuals and families are provided free or very low cost housing, enriched with support services aimed,,at building self-reliance skills. An estimated 684 individuals will be assisted with ESG-funded emergency shelter services during FY 2012-2013.4 Additionally, 196 County residents will be assisted with emergency shelter or transitional housing with HOPWA funds.5 Specific activities to be carried out during the 2012-2013 Program Year are delineated in the LISTING OF PROPOSED PROJECTS- EXHIBIT 3. RAPID RE-HOUSING/TRANSITION TO PERMANENT HOUSING In recent years a new model to address the housing and service needs of the homeless has emerged - rapid re-housing. In contract to the shelter/services model, the primary notion of rapid re-housing is to transition a homeless individual or household into stable housing as quickly as possible, thus avoiding the creation of separate housing and services for people who happen to be at risk of or who are already experiencing homelessness. In 2009, the City implemented the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HPRP) program. This $2,831,989 HUD grant was authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The City allocated these funds to 13 programs managed by nonprofit agencies. HPRP resources were used to provide Santa Ana residents with homelessness prevention and access to housing permanent (via rapid re-housing programs) over a three year period. The HPRP program will sunset in the fall of 2012; however as of 4 Total includes 580 individuals assisted with emergency shelter (including 355 victims of domestic violence), 63 individuals with transitional housing, and 41 with shelter-based legal services. 5 Total includes 67 County residents assisted with HOPWA-funded emergency shelter plus 129 County residents assisted with HOPWA-funded transitional housing.. 2012-2013 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN 26 DRAFT 04/08/2012 29B-33