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2010/11- 2014 -15 CITY OF SANTA ANA CONSOLIDATED PLAN I 2014/15 ACTION PLAN HOMELESS AND OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS The Action Plan delineates the specific activities that the City will undertake during the 2014 -2015 Program Year that address objectives and goals identified in the Consolidated Plan to meet the needs of Santa Ana's homeless and special need populations. As reported in the 2010 -2014 Consolidated Plan, it is estimated in 2009 there were 1,925 homeless individuals Santa Ana at the time the County undertook its biennial Point In Time census of the region's homeless. Because individuals enter and leave homelessness on an ongoing basis, it was estimated that 4,961 Santa Ana residents were homeless over the course of a year. To address the needs of these individuals, the City will continue its efforts to identify efficient and effective means to distribute limited resources for homeless needs. The City has designated emergency and transitional housing as high priorities for addressing homelessness. There are 16 emergency and transitional shelters in the City, providing an estimated 265 emergency and 317 transitional housing beds - more than any other city in the County.3 During the 2014 -2015 Program Year the City will also incorporate into its agreements a provision that each ESG- funded agency prepare and implement a policy that will help ensure persons discharged from local publicly funded institution have access to housing /services thus preventing their immediate homelessness upon discharge. In 2009, President Obama signed into law a bill to reauthorize HUD's McKinney -Vento Homeless Assistance programs. The bill included parts of the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act. Since the provisions of the bills were identical, both have become known as the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act. The HEARTH Act made numerous changes to HUD's homeless assistance programs: • Replaced the Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) program with the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program • Homelessness prevention is significantly expanded • New incentives place more emphasis on outreach /assessment and rapid re- housing, especially for homeless families • The existing emphasis on creating permanent supportive housing for people experiencing chronic homelessness will continue, although now families can also be considered chronically homeless 3 Total emergency shelter beds do not include 250 seasonal beds that are opened during winter months offered at the National Guard Armory located in Santa Ana. 04/25/2014 21