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Possible City Strategies: • Coordinate with the County regarding required data.. 5. Develop long-term leadership and build community support. The Everyl Home Plan represents a shift from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. Implementation will require unprecedented levels of communication among stakeholders. The development of a long-term leadership structure and community support will be critical to implementing the plan over the next fifteen years. Possible City Strategies: • Commission and staff can play an active, on-going role in the Plan's leadership structure. • Commit staff support to work collaboratively with the County and stakeholders to implement the Plan and related City goals and priorities. The Everyl Home Plan does not replace the Housing Element, which is still the primary housing plan for the City and does not conflict with the City's HUD Consolidated Plan both of which are used to develop the strategies as detailed above. The City's HUD Consolidated Plan, which focuses on the allocation of CDBG funds, contains goals and objectives that have been prepared in coordination with the Alameda County HOME Consortium to address homelessness as a regional issue and has been a key vehicle for the City to help assist its homeless. Therefore, the Consolidated Plan and the Housing Element are integral to and a means towards furthering the Everyl Home Plan. A summary of this effort is as follows: Consolidate Plan The City Council adopted the FY 2005-2009 Five-Year HUD Consolidated Plan in April 2005. The Consolidated Plan priorities for homeless and supportive housing needs are: • Maintain, improve and expand (as needed) the capacity of housing, shelter and services for homeless individuals and families including integrated healthcare, employment services and other supportive services. • Maintain and expand activities designed to prevent those currently housed from becoming homeless. • Build on inter-jurisdictional cooperation to achieve housing and homeless needs. • Increase the availability of service-enriched housing for persons with special needs. Applicable General Plan Policy Homeless and special needs policies in the Housing Element of the General Plan include: Page 4 of 7