FROM:
Housing
SUBJECT:
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Acceptance of 2025 Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program Funding
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
1. Accept the San Bernardino County Continuum of Care’s Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program funding in the amount of $1,700,000;
2. Authorize the City Manager, or City Manager’s designee, to execute and transmit any documents necessary or desirable to ensure the City's timely receipt of the San Bernardino County Continuum of Care’s Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program funding.
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COUNCIL GOALS:
• Practice sound fiscal management by pursing grant opportunities.
• Provide a diverse range of housing types and levels of affordability while addressing homelessness in the community by promoting diverse range of housing projects and levels of affordability.
• Concentrate on Inter-governmental relations by pursuing financial participation from county, state and federal governments
DISCUSSION:
The San Bernardino County Continuum of Care (CoC) released the Request for Applications No. OHS 24-05 Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program (HHIP) on October 31, 2024 making approximately $10 million dollars available to eligible applicants.
The HHIP is a statewide voluntary program in which Managed Care Plans (MCPs) work at the county level with local partners to build partnerships with social service providers and homeless systems of care. HHIP funds are used to invest in work done by local organizations that are leading housing and homeless-related efforts.
The ultimate goal is to improve health outcomes and access to whole-person care services by addressing housing insecurity and instability as social determinants of health for the targeted population.
There were five major categories that an applicant could request funding through this two-year grant:
• CoC Support which strengthens housing-related infrastructure and increases the related workforce.
• CoC Collaboration & Partnerships supports the increase in the number of housing-related service providers.
• Disparities & Equity Services Support enhances support for addressing disparities and equity in housing-related services.
• Street Medicine Support supports infrastructure to coordinate and meet eligible participants health and housing needs.
• Permanent Supportive Housing
The City submitted an application under the Permanent Supportive Housing category to be utilized at the Aldea Apartments to expand the City’s current homeless programming and was awarded $1,700,000. The County of San Bernardino’s grant approval process is expected to be completed in the next few months with the San Bernardino County Interagency Council on Homelessness approving the funding first and final approval by the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors shortly thereafter.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The fiscal impact associated with the approval of this item is an increase in the Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program Continuum of Care funds in the amount of $1,700,000 dollars. The required budget adjustments will be included in the first available quarterly budget report in Fund 301 (Project #30200028) once the County has completed its approval process.
MOTION:
Approve Staff Recommendation.