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In each of these areas the plan sets strategic objectives to address homelessness. Prevent Homelessness for our Residents. • Address racial disparities in mainstream/upstream systems to prevent disproportionate inflow of African Americans into homelessness. • Focus resources for homelessness prevention on people most likely to lose their homes. • Rapidly resolve episode of homeless through Housing Problem Solving. • Prevent racially disproportionate returns to homelessness. Connect People to Shelter and Needed Resources. • Provide neighborhood-based access where people are most likely to lose housing. • Lower programmatic barriers to crisis services such as prevention, problem solving and shelter. • Prevent discharge from main stream systems to homelessness. • Significantly increase the availability of shelter, especially non-congregate models, to serve adults and families with children and to reduce unsheltered homelessness. • Provide accessible behavioral services to people with serious mental illness or substance use needs and who are unsheltered, in shelter, or in supportive housing programs. Increase Housing Solutions. • Add units and subsidies for permanent supportive housing. • Create units for frail seniors and others with more intensive health services. • Create dedicated affordable housing subsidies for people who do not need intensive services. • Create shallow subsidies for those who need more limited assistance. • Add new slots of rapid housing for those who can take over the full rent given time. • Ensure new housing funding is distributed according to need. The numbers of people and the significant subpopulations in each region are different. As much Page 3 of 4