29A - CON PLAN ANNUAL UPDATE FOR FEDERAL FUNDED PROGRAMS

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2013/14 I 2010/11- 2014/15 CITY OF SANTA ANA CONSOLIDATED PLAN ACTION PLAN 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/families are provided housing, enriched with support services aimed at building self-reliance skills. An estimated 760 individuals will be assisted with ESG-funded emergency shelter services during FY 2013- 2014.4 s Planned accomplishments for the 2013-2014 Program Year are outlined 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. PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND DATA COLLECTION Additionally, ESG funding has been allocated for program administration and data collection (i.e., Homeless Management Information Systems or HMIS). Access to decent, affordable permanent housing is the ultimate goal of the City's Continuum of Care system. In the past, the City has provided HOME, CDBG and Redevelopment resources to nonprofit service providers in order to acquire and rehabilitate 26 DRAFT 04/22/2013 29A-31