29A_ CONSOLIDATED PLAN ANNUAL UPDATE_EXHIBIT

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2010/11 - 2014.15 CITY OF SANTA ANA CONSOLIDATED PLAN t 2014/15 ACTION PLAN 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 2014 -2015. Planned accomplishments for the 2014- 2015 Program Year are outlined in the LISTING OF PROPOSED PROJECTS— EXHIBIT 3. RAPID RE- HOUSING/TRANSITION TO PERMANENT HOUSING Access to decent, affordable permanent housing is the ultimate goal of the City's Continuum of Care system. 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 past years, the City has provided HOME, CD13G, HOPWA and Redevelopment resources to nonprofit service providers in order to acquire and rehabilitate housing units for persons leaving homeless programs. Some of these units have been targeted for special need populations such as the disabled, youth, and individuals living with HIV /AIDS. In past years the Housing Authority reserved ten vouchers to assist households graduating out of a transitional housing program. Due to recent cuts to the housing voucher program, no vouchers for this purpose will available in the 2014 -2015 Program Year. The City has also allocated ESG resources to fund two service providers, which will place an estimated 53 homeless individuals in permanent housing via rapid re- housing programs. The City will encourage service providers to make every effort to minimize the amount of time an individual /household remain homeless, provide access to affordable housing, and to minimize recidivism. 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). 04/25/2014 23