DATE: December 8, 2020
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Deputy City Manager
SUBJECT
Temporary Hayward Navigation Center Hotel Annex Project: Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Take Emergency Actions Consistent with the City of Hayward's Shelter Crisis Declaration to Implement the Temporary Hayward Navigation Center Hotel Annex Project to House Vulnerable Homeless Individuals by Allocating $1.21 Million in Existing Funds, Appropriating and Allocating Up to $90,000 in Anticipated State Grant Funds, and Entering into Relevant Agreements
RECOMMENDATION
That Council adopts a resolution (Attachment II) authorizing the City Manager to take emergency actions consistent with the City's shelter crisis declaration to implement a temporary Hayward Navigation Center Hotel Annex project to house vulnerable homeless individuals by allocating $1.21 million in existing funds, appropriating and allocating up to $90,000 in anticipated State grant funds, and entering into relevant agreements...End
SUMMARY
Homelessness is a growing regional and statewide crisis, with homelessness in Hayward increasing 23% from 2017 to 2019. Due to this statewide crisis, on October 2, 2018, the City Council declared a shelter crisis in the City of Hayward and, on January 22, 2019, extended this declaration through June 2021. Through this shelter crisis declaration, the City Council found that the health and safety of the City's growing homeless population is threatened by a lack of shelter and authorized the City Manager to take emergency action to implement the Navigation Center, which opened in November 2019.
While City Council has long identified homelessness, housing affordability, and eviction prevention as key concerns in the community and have supported local efforts and projects to address these issues, the global COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these issues and created a more acute need for increased homelessness response and intervention, particul...
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