Resolution 15913CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 15913
TO ENDORSE THE ALAMEDA COUNTY HOME TOGETHER 2026
COMMUNITY PLAN: A 5 -YEAR STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK CENTERING
RACIAL EQUITY TO END HOMELESSNESS IN ALAMEDA COUNTY
WHEREAS, Home Together 2026 Community Plan: A 5 -year Strategic Framework
Centering Racial Equity to End Homelessness in Alameda County (Home Together 2026 Plan) is
a community -wide plan for Alameda County (County) which lays out the goals, strategies, and
investments needed to dramatically reduce homelessness by 2026 and reverse racial disparities
in homelessness through fully centering racial equity; and
WHEREAS, on any given night over 8,000 people experience homelessness in the
County, a number that grows to approximately 15,000 people over the course of a year; and
WHEREAS, more than 90% of the households in the County are adults without children,
including nearly 10% who are between the ages of 18 and 24; and
WHEREAS, dramatic racial disparities exist in the County, as in the nation as a whole,
and the homeless population does not reflect the demographics of the County; and
WHEREAS, in the County, African Americans experience homelessness at more than four
times their representation in the population (47% versus 11%); and
WHEREAS, in the County, Native Americans, multiracial people and Hawaiian
Native/Pacific Islanders are all vastly overrepresented in homelessness among those newly
homeless and in the rates at which they return to homelessness even after getting into housing;
and
WHEREAS, the Home Together 2026 Plan builds and is informed by existing local and
regional plans, including the 2020 Centering Racial Equity in Homeless System Design report, All
Home Regional Action Plan, and Plan Bay Area 2050; and
WHEREAS, Home Together 2026 is also responsive to requirements laid out in the
California Comeback Plan and AB 140 necessary to receive critical State housing and health
funding; and
WHEREAS, the homeless system modeling, reported in the Home Together 2026
Executive Summary, conducted 2019-20 and updated in 2021 points to significant gaps in the
current system in terms of both housing resources and program types; and
WHEREAS, only an estimated 36% of those experiencing homelessness can be
supported by the current system's resources or are able to find housing or leave homelessness
on their own; and
WHEREAS, without significant effort and investment including prevention, shelter
expansion, increasing housing solutions, and strengthening the system's overall capacity,
homelessness in Alameda County will continue to grow; and
WHEREAS, the total estimated cost of needed investments over the coming five years to
fully meet the need is $2.5 billion, including approximately $430 million for additional shelter, $1.68
billion for permanent housing such as dedicated affordable housing and permanent supportive
housing, and $388 million for prevention, rapid rehousing and shallow subsidies; and
WHEREAS, significant additional funding will be needed to meet these investment targets;
and
WHEREAS, in order to receive future funding made available through the County, cities
must endorse the Home Together 2026 plan; and
WHEREAS, in 2019, the City of Alameda (City) approved and adopted the Plan to End
Homelessness: 2018 Strategic Update Developed by EveryOne Home thus recognizing the need
for a coordinated response to homeless on the County level; and
WHEREAS, in 2021, City Council approved The Road Home: A Five Year Plan to Prevent
and Respond to Homelessness in Alameda and committed to coordinating with the County and
neighboring cities on short- and long-term housing solutions for the homeless.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City endorses the
Home Together 2026 Plan: A 5 -Year Strategic Framework Centering Racial Equity to End
Homelessness in the County.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled on
the 7th day of June 2022, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Herrera Spencer, Knox White, Vella and
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft — 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said
City this 8th day of June 2022.
L
Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
City of Alameda
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