REPORT TO COUNCIL & HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
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Discussion and Potential Action to Adopt a 2026-2030 Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
This report provides an overview of the draft Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness ("Plan"), which serves as the City's five-year plan (Fiscal Years 2026-2030) to address homelessness in Sunnyvale. This report summarizes the Plan's major goals, strategies, costs, and recommendations for immediate next steps, and asks the City Council and Housing and Human Services Commission to adopt the draft Plan The Plan organizes the goals to address homelessness under five major themes:
1. Prevention strategies to keep people from becoming homeless.
2. Emergency strategies to shelter and rehouse households and improve health and safety on the street.
3. Creation of affordable, extremely low-income, and permanent supportive housing units prioritized for households experiencing homelessness.
4. Collaboration with other local jurisdictions.
5. Ensuring equity and lived experience are key to program development and implementation.
The Plan provides a funding plan and timeline for each goal and strategy to be implemented over the next five years.
BACKGROUND
The City's focus, for many decades, was on supporting lower-income households and funding homelessness prevention programs. In recent years, the Council has acknowledged that the County cannot address the needs of homeless individuals alone and has therefore added City programs to support the unhoused.
In 2022, the City Council added Supporting the Unhoused Community as a Council Strategic Priority. Also in 2022, the Council authorized and funded street outreach services to augment other social service programs in the County and to assist unhoused individuals in learning about and accessing services. The contract for street outreach services with HomeFirst was extended three times through September 30, 2024.
In FY 2023/24, ...
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