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26 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> NORTH CAROLINA Orange County, North Carolina <br /> GOAL 3: Provide permanent and tempora _ au. <br /> and community and supportive services for <br /> populations with special needs that include the <br /> homeless, older residents, disabled, mentally ill, and <br /> persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. <br /> Strategies Action/Recommendation <br /> Support the coordinated strategies undertaken by the '�"� Assist and participate in collaborative <br /> Partnership to End Homelessness for housing and support efforts in partnership with the local <br /> services for homeless persons, and persons who are at risk Continuum of Care and the affordable <br /> of becoming homeless. housing community and partners to address <br /> the following unmet community needs: <br /> Increase the number of accessible permanent housing 1) an adequate emergency shelter (s) <br /> units through new construction and through rehabilitation that can accommodate individuals <br /> of existing housing units and through financial or and families of mixed composition <br /> development incentives on available vacant and developable and sex and for men; <br /> land in the County. 2) a Domestic Violence shelter <br /> according to best practices and <br /> Continue to enforce the ADA and Fair Housing expertise in meeting the needs of <br /> requirements for landlords to permit reasonable victims; <br /> accommodations to their rental properties so they become 3) more permanent supportive housing <br /> accessible to tenants who are disabled. for disabled homeless people <br /> including creative and non-traditional <br /> Support the local Continuum of Care's (Coca) efforts to affordable housing options that <br /> provide emergency shelter, increase support for rapid reduce cost and provide for more <br /> rehousing, and permanent supportive housing for persons affordable units; and service needs <br /> and families who are homeless or who are at risk of of unaccompanied minors/youth. <br /> becoming homeless. <br /> Al 7: Make full use of performance data <br /> from the HMIS to help drive program <br /> decision-making and to monitor, evaluate, <br /> and report program and system-wide <br /> performance and gaps of the housing and <br /> service delivery system for the homeless. <br /> Continue to work collaboratively and <br /> review other success models and evidence <br /> based approaches and or programs to <br /> address the following challenges: <br /> 1) Identifying landlords willing to rent <br /> to formerly homeless people, with <br /> either short-term rental assistance <br /> or assistance via a rapid rehousing <br /> program or long-term rental <br /> assistance via permanent <br /> supportive housing tenant-based <br /> voucher programs; <br /> 2) Bringing rapid rehousing <br /> approaches to scale and providing <br /> adequate funding for rapid <br /> rehousing initiatives; and <br /> Draft Affordable Housing Strategic Plan <br />