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Home Together 2026: Implementation Goals and Activities Home Together 2026 recommends specific action • Ensure new housing funding is distributed steps in the following four categories: according to need 1. Prevent Homelessness for our Residents • Reduce entry barriers to housing and ensure racial equity in referrals and placements • Address racial disparities in mainstream/upstream systems to prevent disproportionate inflow of 4. Strengthen Coordination, Communication and African Americans into homelessness Capacity • Focus resources for prevention on people most • Use data to improve outcomes and track racial likely to lose their homes equity impacts • Rapidly resolve episodes of homelessness through • Improve messaging and information availability Housing Problem Solving • Build infrastructure to support new and • Prevent racially disproportionate returns expanded programs to homelessness Taken together, the significant increase in 2. Connect People to Shelter and Needed investment and the creation of new models and Resources pathways out of homelessness will lead to decreases in new homelessness, improved racial equity, shorter • Provide neighborhood-based access where people time being homeless, and a reduced rate at which are most likely to lose housing people return to homelessness. • Lower programmatic barriers to crisis The community of Alameda County adopts this plan services such as prevention, problem solving, and vision at a time when the future is uncertain. and shelter The response to COVID-19 has shown that the • Prevent discharge from mainstream systems community can pull together and work at speeds to homelessness we have not seen before, a strong foundation • Significantly increase the availability of shelter, to build from. However, we face continuing especially non-congregate models, to serve challenges including uncertainties from COVID-19, vulnerable adults and families with children and to unpredictable housing markets and future State, reduce unsheltered homelessness Federal and local budgets, and an overtaxed public and non-profit sector with significant capacity • Provide accessible behavioral health services to needs. All these challenges require continuing the people with serious mental illness or substance current level of unprecedented collaboration and use needs and who are unsheltered, in shelter, or coordination and building on the progress made to in supportive housing programs unify the community response and build an aligned 3. Increase Housing Solutions response system centered in racial equity. With these commitments and agreements for increased • Add units and subsidies for permanent investment and joint accountability we can, by 2026, supportive housing be Home, Together. • Create units for frail seniors and others with more intensive health services • Create dedicated affordable housing units or subsidies for people who do not need intensive services • Create shallow subsidies for those who need more limited assistance • Add new slots of rapid rehousing for those who can take over their full rent given time