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Homelessness in California
State Government and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Need to Strengthen Their Efforts to Address Homelessness

Report Number: 2017-112

Response to the Survey From —
Salinas, Monterey, San Benito Counties CoC

 

HUD provides two lists of California Continuum of Care (CoC) key contacts: one for Northern California and one for Southern California.
You can find these lists at https://www.hud.gov/states/california/homeless/continuumcare.
  1. Enter the CoC number for which you are completing the survey.

    CA-506
  2. Enter the CoC name for which you are completing the survey.

    Salinas, Monterey, San Benito Counties CoC


  3. Enter the organization within the CoC that you represent.

    Coalition of Homeless Services Providers

  4. What type of organization do you represent?.







  5. How many staff (full-time equivalents) does your organization employ?

    4

  6. Does your organization provide homeless services directly for clients?


  7. Are you a direct recipient on your CoC's HUD application?
     
  8. Approximately what percentage of the funding your organization administers is from HUD for the CoC program?

    7

  9. If not your organization, is there another organization in your CoC that administers the majority of homeless services funding?




  10. Does your CoC conduct an unsheltered Point-in-Time (PIT) count annually? (Including those years not required by HUD)
     
  11. In which year did your CoC begin conducting an annual unsheltered PIT count?

  12. Why did your CoC decide to conduct an annual unsheltered PIT count?

  13. What funding sources do you use to conduct the annual unsheltered PIT count? (Check all that apply.)





  14. How did your CoC facilitate the annual unsheltered PIT count?
    (For example, did you increase the number of volunteers, or find additional funding?)

  15. Did your organization have any challenges in implementing an annual unsheltered PIT count?



  16. How has conducting an annual unsheltered PIT count affected your CoC's operations and/or outcomes? If you have any data or analyses, please share specific metrics.

  17. Why does your CoC not conduct an annual unsheltered PIT count? (Check * all that apply)







     

  18. Please elaborate on the reasons why your CoC does not conduct an annual unsheltered PIT count.

    Unsheltered PIT's are very expensive, time consuming and labor intensive. It is an impossible expectation in our CoC. HUD does not pay for PIT counts


  19. What would cause your CoC to conduct an unsheltered PIT count in the years not required by HUD?

    Direct funding from HUD to carry out unsheltered PIT activities



  20. What sources does your organization use to fund the HUD-required PIT count of unsheltered homeless? (Check all that apply)






     

  21. How much did your CoC's 2017 PIT count cost?

    $65,000 in base costs plus personnel
  22. How many people did your CoC require to conduct its 2017 PIT count? (Staff, volunteers, and others)

    200

  23. How many of those identified in Question 22 were volunteers?

    196

  24. Does your CoC recruit volunteers for its unsheltered PIT count from organizations outside the homeless services community?



    Local government, civic groups, faith communities and the general public, hospitals, police, etc.

  25. Please share your perspective on the reasons your CoC's unsheltered homeless population in 2017 did or did not change from that in its previous unsheltered PIT count.

    Unsheltered count went up. 1. Massive effort to count youth because it will serve as 2017 serves as a baseline. 2. We are simply getting better and better at the PIT. 3. Like many communities, our homeless population is growing despite best efforts

  26. Has your CoC reallocated funding in the past?



  27. How often does your CoC reevaluate final priority rankings for the HUD CoC Program Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), based on HUD priorities?




  28. How often does your CoC perform the following gap analyses?

    Housing gap analysis—Every two years

    Funding gap analysis—Have not done in the past, are looking to do it this year

    Service gap analysis—Every two years

    Other (please specify)—

  29. In what year did your CoC perform each of the following for the first time, or leave the row blank if it is not applicable.

    Housing gap analysis
    2017

    Funding gap analysis
    In process

    Service gap analysis
    2017

    Other (as you identified in question 27)

  30. Does your CoC employ specific strategies for identifying alternative funding for programs that are reallocated or do not receive HUD funding?




  31. Does your CoC have a strategic plan that integrates other publicly-funded programs that provide services, housing, and income supports to poor persons whether they are homeless or not (mainstream benefits and services)?



  32. Please provide a web address to your CoC's most recent strategic plan or email it as an attachment to CoCSurvey@auditor.ca.gov.

    www.chspmontereycounty.org

  33. When did your CoC complete its first strategic plan?

    2012

  34. How often does your CoC update its strategic plan?

    currently in the updating process

  35. How has your strategic plan benefited your CoC?

    Provides a framework


  36. Why has your CoC not developed a strategic plan?

  37. What grant-seeking or fundraising activities does your CoC engage in?

    Serves as the Collaborative Applicant for HUD CoC Funding, works closely with ESG (federal and state), county funding strategies

  38. Are there any strategies or unique actions your agency takes that have strengthened your CoC?

    Incorporation of Coordinated Assessment and Referral System

  39. Please provide any information about these strategies or actions.
    Feel free to provide web addresses to any reports or email them as attachments to CoCSurvey@auditor.ca.gov.


    Coordinated Entry ensures the most vulnerable homeless are prioritized for housing vacancies

  40. If you have any additional perspective or concerns, please provide this information in the space below.
    For example, if you would like to share additional information regarding homelessness, services, or funding.


    Affordable housing for 0-30% Area Median Income is the single most challenging issue. Our community is high rent, low vacancy with sever lack of landlords willing to participate in any sort of rental assistance program because there is no financial incentive to do so. Example: Rapid Rehousing has become a model, but very, very difficult to actually use if landlords will not accept. Funding MUST be increased if we are to actually solve the problem and not just work around the edges. One size of a model does NOT fit all communities. Federal and State funding agencies should make a better attempt to understand the unique needs of various communities.

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