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8A REPORT Page 1 To the Honorable Mayor<and City Council From the City; Manager May 221 2006 Subject HOPE Plan to End Homelessness in San Mateo County. Recommendation The Housing and Human Concerns Committee recommends that Council endorse the HOPE Pfan to End Homelessness in San Mateo County~ Background As an entitlement city for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership Funds (HOME) under the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the City of Redwood City annually allocates funds based on the cityJs Consolidated Pla.n. Redwood City's Consolidated Plan for 2005-2010, approved by Council on May 91 2005, is a short-term plan for the proposed use of federal funds to identify and address the needs of Redwood City residents who are earning below the area median income and/or at poverty level~ ..... . The theme of Redwood City's five-year plan is Building Community Through Housing Production and Basic Human Needs. The strategy focuses on the social and physical needs of persons who are at-risk of homelessness or who are homeless and in need of adequate, affordable~ and available permanent housing. The strategy couples housing programs with supportive services and neighborhood and community improvements that will improve the appearance of neighborhoods occupied primarily by low-income households. One of the mandatory components of a Consolidated Plan is the existence of a Homeless Continuum of Care in the community being served. Redwood City meets this requirement . by participating with staff representation in San Mateo County's Homeless Continuum of Care Steering Committee and by incorporating the Continuum of Care's strategies into our Consolidated Plan. Overthe last couple of years, HUD has begun to require that all Homeless Continuums of Care develop ten-year plans to end homeJessness. As a result, in April 2005, County Supervisors Jerry Hill and Mark Church issued the invitation that brought together 150 representatives from all sectors of the community with a mandate to create a plan to end homelessness in San Mateo County~ Staffed by the Human Services Agency, this planning process became known as HOPE (Housing Our People Effectively). Several members of the H Dusing and Human Concerns Committee and City staff participated in the process over a 1 Q-month period~ Councilmember Jeff Ira and Mayor Barbara Pierce participated in the leadership committee. The County Board of Supervisors endorsed the final plan in March 2006 and has invited other jurisdictions, businesses, organizations, and churches throughout the county to do