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CD <br />• Increase the educational opportunities and provide training relating to Fair Housing through <br />workshops, forums and presentations <br />• Target specific protected groups for fair housing information <br />• Continue to consult with local lending institutions regarding their Community Reinvestment <br />Act activities. <br />• Provide training to housing providers and consumers about their obligations and rights. <br />Homeless Assessment <br />Based on a point-in-time count conducted on January 25, 2006, the total number of homeless <br />people in Orange County was 237, Eighty-three (83) homeless persons in were in families, <br />including 51 children. Additionally, 39 chronically homeless persons were documented. These <br />numbers, however, do not include people who are doubled up, that are without a legal <br />residence of their own and temporarily staying with another person. The Orange County <br />Continuum of Care, with the Orange Person Chatham (OPC) Area Program serving as the lead <br />agency, coordinates the resources and services to support the homeless in Orange County. <br />There are prevention, outreach and supportive services available to Orange County homeless <br />to help alleviate their needs. <br />There is also an Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness which has formed following <br />the National Alliance to End Homelessness plan, "How to End Homelessness in Ten Years." In <br />March 2005, the governing bodies of Orange County committed funds to the Initiative and <br />authorized the creation of a workgroup to begin the process. The workgroup identified <br />community stakeholders and formed a formal Steering Committee with representatives from the <br />County and Town governing bodies and management; law enforcement agencies; school <br />systems; United Way; County and Town Chambers of Commerce; Economic Development <br />Corporation; business community; health care agencies; lending institutions; and the Builders <br />Association. Following the National Alliance to End Homelessness plan, the workgroup has <br />gathered research and data on homelessness and begun the process of creating a ten-year <br />plan to end homelessness for Orange County. <br />The Orange County Continuum of Care, with the Orange Person Chatham (OPC) Area Program <br />serving as the lead agency, coordinates the resources and services to support the homeless in <br />Orange County. There are prevention, outreach and supportive services available to Orange <br />County homeless to help alleviate their needs. There is also a vision to create a 10 year plan to <br />end chronic homelessness through the support of the Triangle Alliance to Resolve Chronic <br />Homeless (TARCH). <br />Non-Housing Community Development <br />Orange County and the Town of Chapel Hill believe that true community revitalization requires a <br />comprehensive set of strategies to ensure success. Rehabilitating or constructing residential <br />structures without improving the physical, social and economic environment in which they are <br />located does not automatically revitalize neighborhoods. <br />The public spaces and infrastructure used to support community development includes public <br />facilities, including neighborhood facilities, parks and numerous health facilities for specialized <br />care and medical research. The area's infrastructure includes water and wastewater treatment <br />facilities that provide sufficient server capacity to all townships. Streets include two major <br />interstates as well as hundreds of miles of primary and secondary highways. Public services <br />[6]