Title:
Title
Update to the Homeless Services Funding Plan [To Be Delivered]
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FileID
File ID: 2019-01244
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Pass a Motion 1) selecting Option A (attachment A), Option B (attachment B), or Option C (attachment C) as Addendum #1 to the Homeless Services Funding Plan; and 2) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager's designee to adopt the priorities for funding of shelters and other homeless services as detailed in the selected Addendum.
Contact: Emily Halcon, Homeless Services Manager, (916) 808-7896, Office of the City Manager, Homeless Services Division
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Presenter: Emily Halcon, Homeless Services Manager, (916) 808-7896, Office of the City Manager, Homeless Services Division
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Option A: Homeless Services Funding Plan: Addendum #1
3-Option B: Homeless Services Funding Plan: Addendum #1
4-Option C: Homeless Services Funding Plan: Addendum #1
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The crisis of unsheltered homelessness is one that impacts an entire community, both those experiencing homelessness and the broader community of housed residents, businesses, and neighborhoods. Over the past several years, the City has made significant investments to increase access to and availability of shelter, services and permanent housing for people and families experiencing homelessness. Despite these efforts, homelessness and its impacts continue to rise:
* From 2015 to 2017, the Sacramento region saw an 85% increase of unsheltered homelessness.
* According to the most recent Sacramento County Homeless Deaths Report, death rates among the unsheltered homeless population are four times that of the general population and rose by almost 75% from 2016 to 2017.
* At the City's Railroad Drive Triage Shelter and through the City's Pathways to Health + Home program, we are seeing the aging of the homeless population; over half of the participants in both progr...
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