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046 <br /> Priority: Create transitional housing units for shelter residents <br /> who can live independently. <br /> Analysis: A large number of shelter guests are persons new to the <br /> area seeking work; once they find employment, they still cannot <br /> afford to mb"ve" to permanent housing. Also, battered women often <br /> cannot afford to move from their homes into the private housing <br /> market. A transitional program would allow them to leave the <br /> shelter environment while having an affordable housing unit to help <br /> them save the funds necessary for rent and utility deposits . Such <br /> transitional housing may reduce the population needing services <br /> from the homeless shelter, especially those who can live <br /> independently but for whom no opportunities exist in the Orange <br /> County rental market. <br /> Strategy/Investment Plan: Federal, State and local resources will <br /> be inventoried to determine how programs may "mesh" to meet this <br /> goal. <br /> Priority: To assist local nonprofit human service agencies to <br /> provide a continuum of housing options for special populations, <br /> including older adults, disabled, mentally ill, and persons with <br /> AIDS. <br /> Analysis : Such a continuum would provide for a variety of housing <br /> choices, from unassisted living to small group homes, including <br /> boarding house-style living and other supportive settings. As <br /> local agencies identify needs, plan projects that could meet those <br /> needs, and locate state and federal programs that could fund those <br /> projects, local funds for housing could be used to meet matching <br /> requirements, to provide up-front planning costs, or to provide <br /> extra amenities or services not otherwise included in other <br /> programs. <br /> Strategy/Investment Plan: Federal, State and local resources will <br /> be inventoried to determine how programs may "mesh" to meet this <br /> goal. <br /> c. RELEVANT PUBLIC POLICIES. <br /> Orange County. Orange County enacted a density bonus for <br /> affordable housing in 1990, allowing up to 50% increase in <br /> density for developments that are all affordable and sold to <br /> qualifying low and moderate-income households. Other public <br /> policies generally do not have an adverse impact on the cost <br /> of housing. <br /> Chapel Hill. Within the designated urban services area, <br /> where access to employment, transit, day care, schools, and <br /> public utilities is located, the supply of vacant land is <br /> small and the price is high. In addition to the high cost of <br /> 37 <br />