Title:
Title
Funding Agreement with the Sacramento LGBT Community Center for the Short-term Transitional Emergency Housing Program (STEP)
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FileID
File ID: 2019-01451
Location
Location: District 4
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Pass a Motion authorizing the City Manager, or the City Manager's designee, to execute an agreement with the Sacramento LGBT Community Center for the Short-term Transitional Emergency Housing Program (STEP) for an amount not to exceed $261,991 for services through December 31, 2020.
Contact: Andrew Geurkink, Program Manager, (916) 808-7816, Homeless Services Division, Office of the City Manager
Body
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Agreement with the Sacramento LGBT Community Center for the Short-term Transitional Emergency Housing Program (STEP)
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. The Sacramento 2019 point-in-time homeless count, conducted by the Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) lead agency, Sacramento Steps Forward (SSF), identified 415 unaccompanied youth under the ages of 25 experiencing homelessness with 245 of those living unsheltered.
In June of 2018, the Governor signed SB 850, which allocated over $553 million in one-time State funding for two new programs: the Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP) and the California Emergency Solutions Program (CESH). The HEAP program awarded $5.6 million to the City of Sacramento and $12.7 million to Sacramento Steps Forward for the Sacramento Continuum of Care Program, the CESH program awarded $1.62 million to the CoC.
On April 23, 2019, the City Council (Council) adopted a resolution to receive and administer $1,760,048 in grant funding from Sacramento Steps Forward, the lead agency for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continu...
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