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21 <br /> <br /> <br />GOAL 2: Increase the quantity and quality of <br />affordable housing, and help low-income families <br />acquire needed information, knowledge, and skills to <br />improve their employment opportunities and reduce <br />the number of families falling below the poverty level. <br /> <br />Strategies Action/Recommendation <br />2.1: Continue and strengthen collaboration between <br />Agencies (public/private) and with municipalities in and <br />neighboring to the County to support existing and new <br />initiatives to meet affordable housing and related service <br />needs and to promote maximum empowerment and self- <br />sufficiency of all income groups and households. <br /> <br />2.2: Promote the development of affordable, decent, safe and <br />sound rental housing that avoids the creation of areas of low- <br />income concentration. <br /> <br />2.3: Implement the County’s Analysis of Impediments, the <br />Consolidated Plan and the Housing Authority Plans. <br /> <br />2:4: Improve the parks, recreational centers, trails, libraries, <br />and all public and community facilities in the County to <br />provide access to these resources by all residents of the <br />County. <br /> <br />2.6: Increase public safety, community policing, municipal <br />services, and public service programs in distressed/problem <br />areas of the County. <br /> <br />2.7: Remove and eliminate blighting conditions through <br />demolition of vacant, abandoned and dilapidated structures <br />infeasible for rehabilitation and provide replacement housing <br />where determined feasible and or consider for land banking. <br /> <br />2.8: Promote neighborhood revitalization in strategic areas <br />to improve communities of low wealth and substandard <br />conditions through acquisition, demolition, rehabilitation, <br />code enforcement, infrastructure, infrastructure <br />improvements, housing construction, public and community <br />facilities improvements, and educational and employment <br />developmental opportunities. <br />AR12: 1) Continue to strengthen the intra- <br />and inter- agency collaboration and <br />community engagement for addressing <br />specific needs and shared and or related <br />goals that include affordable housing. Some <br />of these include the Family Success Alliance <br />staffed by the Health Department; Master <br />Aging Plan, initiatives for the Partnership to <br />End Homelessness, working with OWASA to <br />reduce water consumption and increase cost <br />savings for tenants and homeowners, <br />transportation, and land use. <br />2) In consultation with our community <br />partners, fully utilize our community human <br />capital assets, areas of expertise and unique <br />capacities and special powers to facilitate <br />carrying out the goals and strategies and of <br />the Orange County Affordable Housing <br />Strategic Plan: 2016 -2020. This may <br />include requesting our community partners, <br />particularly in areas of expertise, to <br />participate in developing guiding principles, <br />general guidelines and or design <br />criteria/considerations for the different types <br />of housing needed and planned over the five <br />year period of the Plan. This will include <br />engaging our Advisory Boards, Authorities <br />and Commissions and other public and <br />private partners in their areas of expertise <br />such as the Orange County Housing Authority <br />under AR3 above to, our Municipal Partners <br />and the collective leadership of the Board of <br />Orange County Commissioners (BOCC). <br /> 136