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PART II. PRIORITY HOMELESS NEEDS <br /> Priority: Maintain, improve and expand (as needed) the capacity of <br /> housing, shelter and services for homeless individuals and <br /> families including integrated healthcare, employment <br /> services and other supportive services. <br /> Priority Analysis and Obstacles to Meeting Underserved Needs <br /> Homelessness is one of the most difficult problems facing the HOME Consortium jurisdictions. For <br /> many adults and children homelessness is a frightening and isolating experience. Homelessness <br /> typically occurs because housing is not affordable and/or there is insufficient income to weather a <br /> personal crisis such as loss of employment or a family illness and continue to pay for housing. <br /> Mental disabilities, domestic violence, and alcohol or drug addiction and other problems are <br /> contributing factors. Homeless people live in cars, parks, abandoned buildings, on the streets, in <br /> emergency shelters, doubled up with friends and family members, and in transitional housing. <br /> HUD's definition of homelessness is an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate <br /> nighttime residence; or an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is: 1) a supervised <br /> publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations <br /> (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill); 2) an <br /> institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or 3) a <br /> public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for <br /> human beings. <br /> The 2009 Alameda County Homeless Count identified three distinct homeless populations: 1) <br /> literally homeless people who are residing on the streets, places not meant for human habitation, in <br /> shelter or in transitional housing program; 2) chronically homeless unaccompanied, disabled <br /> people who have been homeless for extended periods of time; and 3) hidden homeless people who <br /> are living temporarily with a friend or relative, in a motel, or facing eviction within seven days. <br /> The National Coalition for the Homeless reports (2007) 842,000 people are homeless on any given <br /> night nationally. About half of the individuals who experience homelessness over the course of a <br /> year live in family units; about 38% of these are children. The other 50% of people who are homeless <br /> on any given night are single adults. Most enter and exit the system fairly quickly (80 Nine <br /> percent use the system approximately five times a year for up to two months. The remainder, (10 <br /> essentially live in the homeless assistance system, or in a combination of shelters, hospitals, the <br /> streets, and jails and prisons. There is also runaway and throwaway youth homeless population. <br /> This population is of indeterminate size. A significant portion of these youth are gay and lesbian <br /> Strategic Plan FV2010 FV2014 <br /> City of Pleasanton <br /> Page IS <br />
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