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27 <br /> Strategic Plan Objectives advanced: <br /> • Housing For All (Goal 3) <br /> Objective 2:Address need and any policy barriers to increase access to <br /> emergency shelter beds and other low-barrier housing including eviction <br /> diversion <br /> • Objective 3:Invest in permanent supportive housing. <br /> Objective 9:Increase representation of people with lived experience on <br /> housing related matters. <br /> - Healthy Community(Goal 2) <br /> Objective 1:Improve harm reduction, prevention,and support services <br /> for adults and children experiencing behavioral health issues,substance <br /> use disorder,and intellectual or developmental disability. <br /> Objective 3:Provide social safety net programming and the resources <br /> needed for our most vulnerable community members(e.g.,veterans, <br /> unhoused people,foster children, older adults,etc.). <br /> • Objective 4:Reduce impacts and barriers for justice-involved children <br /> and adults through deflection, diversion,therapeutic interventions, and <br /> re-entry support,including housing, ORANGE COUNTY <br /> O HOUSING DEPARTMENT <br /> 1 <br /> 2 <br /> 3 Slide #39 <br /> OCPEH — Performance Measures <br /> Number of Households a ■ <br /> Returning to homelessness in I year:7%(1 pt. decrease) <br /> Number of people unhoused. 148(17%increase) <br /> Nationally: 18% <br /> Chronically Homeless: 26(8%decrease) <br /> Entering She Ite r/Homelessness. 340 <br /> First time homeless: 274 <br /> (Both Highest Ever) <br /> Median days homeless:288(13%decrease) <br /> Median time in shelter: 56(20%decrease) <br /> E ORANGE COUNTY <br /> Danielle butler OCP <br /> O Manager HOUSING DEPARTMENT <br /> dabuttehutler@orangecvuntyne.gvv <br /> 4 <br /> 5 Commissioner Greene said the number of chronically homeless seems consistent from <br /> 6 figures 15 years ago. <br /> 7 Commissioner Carter asked what new programs the department might implement. <br /> 8 Blake Rosser said that they are developing new ways to get more work done with less <br /> 9 money. He said there is compelling data about UBI [universal basic income] programs. He said <br /> 10 that in the pilot programs, they disbursed funds for a year, and they found that by disbursing it to <br /> 11 those experiencing homelessness, they reduced homelessness significantly. He said that even <br /> 12 when the UBI stopped, the results stayed. <br /> 13 <br /> 14 Slide #40 <br />