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4. Measure success and report outcomes. Evaluating outcomes will ensure accountability <br />to the broader community and allow participating agencies and government entities to <br />measure success and target resources toward best practices. <br />5. Develop long-term leadership and build political will. Success will be achieved by <br />establishing a leadership structure and community engagement to support creative <br />solutions to homelessness and sustain systems change activities. <br />Progress so Far: <br />Since the launch of Everyone Home, partners have: <br />• Secured 353 additional housing vouchers or operating subsidies <br />• 127 new units under development <br />• Dedicated $7 million additional dollars to services for the targeted populations. <br />Everyone Home will achieve the following Objectives for FY 08-09: <br />• Increase the number of cities with local implementation strategies from 2 to 10 <br />• Partners bring on line 1,000 new homes through vouchers and/or capital development <br />• 2,000 homeless households obtain permanent homes <br />• Decrease by 15% the average number of days people spend homeless before finding <br />homes by 6/30/09 <br />• Launch a new Homeless Prevention Program that will serve 200 households annually <br />• Convert 1,200 General Assistance recipients to Supplemental Security Income <br />• Implement program(s) similar to Direct Access to Housing (DAH) and/or a Safe Haven <br />• Plan for an evolution of the Emergency Care system with providers & funders <br />• Create a consumer housing data base <br />OTHER PROGRAMS <br />The Urban County will implement its housing and community development goals through funds <br />generated from federal, state and local sources as well as pubic and private sources. Additional <br />sources not previously mentioned include in-lieu funds, low income housing tax credits, and <br />foundations. <br />CITIZEN PARTICIPATION <br />The City maintains an on-going data base of nonprofit agencies and other parties who have <br />expressed an interest in the CDBG program. The City held two joint application workshops in <br />collaboration with the City of Livermore in December 2007. Notices regarding the workshops <br />were mailed directly to agencies and persons in the aforementioned data base, and notices were <br />also published in the four local newspapers prior to the workshops. At the workshops (which <br />Action Plao - FY08 <br />City otPlesssnton <br />Page 25 <br />