Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: reporting requirements: functional zero unsheltered.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not specify the exact date when round 7 of the HHAP program will start.

Homeless Housing Reporting Requirements

This law requires areas that receive grants for homelessness programs to report on their efforts to reduce unsheltered homelessness and achieve a goal called 'functional zero'.

What This Bill Does

• Enacts the Functional Zero Unsheltered Act, which applies starting with round 7 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program or when updates are needed for regionally coordinated homeless action plans.
• Requires applicants to provide information about their efforts to address homelessness in their area, including an assessment for achieving functional zero and functional zero unsheltered.
• Defines 'functional zero' as a milestone indicating a community has measurably solved homelessness.
• Defines 'functional zero unsheltered' as having sufficient housing options of all types to accommodate the jurisdiction’s unsheltered, chronically homeless population based on its most recent homeless point-in-time count.
• Requires applicants to include an analysis of needed housing units and a financial model assessing needs for investment in prescribed areas.

Who It Names or Affects

• Jurisdictions that receive grants from the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program.

Terms To Know

Functional Zero

A milestone indicating a community has measurably solved homelessness.

Functional Zero Unsheltered

Having sufficient housing options of all types to accommodate the jurisdiction’s unsheltered, chronically homeless population based on its most recent homeless point-in-time count.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how often updates are required for regionally coordinated homeless action plans.
• It is unclear what specific local homeless housing incentives must be implemented by applicants.
• The exact date when round 7 of the HHAP program will start is unknown.

Official Summary Text

SB 606, as amended, Becker.
Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: reporting requirements: functional zero unsheltered.
Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law requires a program applicant to provide specified information through data collection, reporting, performance monitoring, and accountability framework, as established by the council.
This bill would enact the Functional Zero
Unsheltered
Act, which, beginning with
round 7 of the
HHAP program,
the next round of HHAP program applications, or when updates to the regionally coordinated homeless action plan are next required to be submitted,
would require an applicant to provide information relating to its efforts to address homelessness in its jurisdiction, including an assessment of what would be required for the applicant to achieve and maintain
both functional zero, which the bill would define as a milestone indicating a community has measurably solved homelessness, as specified, and
functional zero unsheltered, which the bill would define as
a necessary milestone in the effort to achieve functional zero indicating that
sufficient housing options of all types to accommodate a jurisdiction’s unsheltered, chronically homeless population based on its most recent homeless point-in-time
count, and information regarding the applicant’s implementation of local homeless housing incentives, as provided.
count.
The bill would require, as part of the assessment of progress toward
functional zero, applicants to include, at a minimum, an analysis of the number of housing units of all types needed to achieve functional zero in a jurisdiction, and as part of the assessment of progress toward
functional zero unsheltered,
applicants to include
a financial model assessing the needs for investment in prescribed areas and further analysis of, among other things, funding programs that provide housing or services to persons experiencing homelessness. The bill would also require an applicant to
provide information regarding the applicant’s implementation of local homeless housing incentives, as provided, and to
demonstrate its efforts to include small cities, as defined, in its regionally coordinated homeless action plan, as specified.

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