CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA PACKET 5-19-26

CITY OF PLEASANTON Annual Action Plan 2026 6 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021) Describe coordination with the Continuum of Care and efforts to address the needs of homeless persons (particularly chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans, and unaccompanied youth) and persons at risk of homelessness Stakeholders in Alameda County have been assessing the needs of persons experiencing homelessness and working to improve our response across the county since the founding of Alameda County-wide Homeless Continuum of Care Council in 1997. The collaboration includes cities and Alameda County government agencies representing three separate care systems — homeless services, HIV/AIDS services and mental health services — that share overlapping client populations. Alameda Countywide Homeless and Special Needs Housing Plan, known as the EveryOne Home plan and published in 2006, helped to form EveryOne Home into a community-based organization to implement the Plan and served as the County’s Continuum of Care. EveryOne Home coordinates local efforts to address homelessness, seeks to maintain the existing service capacity, build new partnerships that generate greater resources for the continuum of housing, services, and employment, and establish inter-jurisdictional cooperation. EveryOne Home leverages substantial federal, state, and local resources for homeless housing and services, standardize data collection, and facilitate a year-round process of collaboration. EveryOne Home includes representation from HOME Consortium jurisdictions and CDBG entitlement jurisdictions in the County, service providers and advocates, homeless or formerly homeless persons, representatives of the faith community, business representatives, and education and health care professionals. EveryOne Home receives administrative funding through Alameda County’s General Fund as well as contributions from each of Alameda County’s jurisdictions. The EveryOne Home plan is structured around three major goals: 1) preventing homelessness; 2) ensuring safer and more dignified conditions for those experiencing homelessness; and 3) increasing permanent homes. In 2018, EveryOne Home updated that Plan now known as the Strategic Plan Update: Ending Homelessness in Alameda County. This Update recommends strategies and actions to reduce homelessness so that in five years no person without a permanent home would need to sleep outside. The Update focuses on 1) preventing homelessness; 2) ensuring safer and more dignified conditions for those experiencing homelessness; and 3) increasing permanent homes. The EveryOne Home Governance Charter memorializes how stakeholders govern the collective impact initiative to end homelessness and meet the federally-defined responsibilities of operating a HUD Continuum of Care as found in the Continuum of Care Program Rule at §578 and its related HUD rules, regulations and notices, direct the work of the backbone organization, and promote partnership and accountability among the various leadership bodies. The 5-year strategic initiative Home Together 2026 Community Plan centers on racial equity and identifies the strategies, activities, and resources needed to dramatically reduce homelessness in Alameda County. The Plan identifies what is needed to operate a homeless response system that has the capacity to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness and to reduce racial disparities. A companion to Page 220 of 908