DATE: December 17, 2024
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT
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Let's House Hayward Strategic Plan: Implementation Update and Discussion of Next Steps
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That the Council receives an update on the implementation of the Let's House Hayward Strategic Plan to reduce homelessness and provides guidance to staff on approaching the City's response to homelessness when the five-year plan concludes in Fiscal Year 2026.
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SUMMARY
On January 28, 2020, Council approved the first iteration of the City's Strategic Roadmap, which included the priority area to Protect, Preserve, and Produce Housing. That priority area included the project to create and implement a homelessness reduction strategic plan. Developing a strategic plan to address homelessness enables the City to proactively position and prioritize the City's work toward helping to resolve this regional issue and prepare for accessing additional resources as they become available.
On September 22, 2020, Council authorized an agreement with Homebase to prepare the five-year Let's House Hayward! (LHH) Strategic Plan. To develop the LHH Plan, Homebase conducted extensive best practice research and collected a wide range of data and input from City stakeholders, including Council. Council adopted the five-year LHH plan on July 13, 2021, along with the City's American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) expenditure plan, which included several projects identified in the LHH plan. Staff provided multiple updates on implementation of the plan, inviting LHH steering committee members and interested parties. One of these updates was provided directly to Council on June 28, 2022, and another was provided to the Homelessness-Housing Task Force on December 7, 2023.
The LHH plan spans from fiscal year 2021-2022 through 2025-2026, so there are approximately one and a half years remaining in its implementation. This work sessi...
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