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Page 3 of 7 <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org <br />The 23% decrease largely is driven by: <br />The success of Redwood City’s RV Safe Parking Program that ended in February 2022 with 60% of the <br />original participants transitioning to permanent housing; <br />The subsequent launching of the Coordinated, Inter-Agency Redwood City Outreach Strategy (OS) <br />Team in November 2022, and <br />The opening of the 44 unit El Camino House (former Stone Villa Motel) in fall 2022 and the opening <br />of the 240-unit Navigation Center last summer. <br />In Fiscal Year 2023-24, 988 homeless individuals in 587 households sought services at Redwood City’s Fair <br />Oaks Community Center (FOCC), one of seven San Mateo County Core Service Agencies that provide safety <br />net services countywide and serve as the local entry point for shelter. Meanwhile the Redwood City <br />Outreach Strategy (OS) Team focused on reaching people who are not otherwise going to a Core Agency <br />– including chronically homeless individuals many of whom are living in vehicles or encampments – as <br />well as those families who have sought shelter services at a Core Agency but are out on the street while <br />waiting to access shelter.2 <br />Since its inception in November 2022, the RWC OS Team has made important progress in transitioning <br />chronically homeless unhoused residents into permanent housing or helping them on the pathway to <br />permanent housing. During the Council presentation, staff will provide further detail on the 40 individuals <br />who have moved into permanent housing and 146 households of individuals and families that entered <br />shelter. <br />2 The family shelter waitlist continues to be extremely long with upwards of 50 families on the wait list over the last <br />year. Between November 2022 and July 31, 2024, the RWC OS Team provided outreach services to 54 families and <br />helped 34 families access the Motel Respite Program and 28 families enter family shelter. <br />8.A. - Page 3 of 7 <br />133