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27 <br /> Slide #38 <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 /> �Q HOUSING DEPARTMENT <br /> Slide#39 <br /> • Performance <br /> Number of Households • • <br /> decrease)Returning to homelessness in I year: 7%(1 pt. <br /> Number of people unhoused: 148(17%increase) <br /> Nationally:18% <br /> Chronically Homeless: 26(8%decrease) <br /> Entering Shelter/Homelessness: 40 <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 /> Danielle Butler nORANGE COUNTY <br /> OCPEH Manager Q HOUSING DEPARTMENT <br /> dabutier@orangecountync.gov <br /> Commissioner Greene said the number of chronically homeless seems consistent from <br /> figures 15 years ago. <br /> Commissioner Carter asked what new programs the department might implement. <br /> Blake Rosser said that they are developing new ways to get more work done with less <br /> money. He said there is compelling data about UBI [universal basic income] programs. He said <br /> that in the pilot programs, they disbursed funds for a year, and they found that by disbursing it to <br /> those experiencing homelessness, they reduced homelessness significantly. He said that even <br /> when the UBI stopped, the results stayed. <br />