Memorandum
Date: August 2, 2022
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Todd Metcalf, Director Behavioral Health Services Department
Subject: Public review and approval of the County of Lake Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Round 3 application for $569,940, including a Local Homelessness Action Plan.
Executive Summary:
HHAP Program Background
The Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) grant program was established with California's Governor Gavin Newsom's signing of Assembly Bill 101 into law in 2019. The bill, which also authorized the local establishment of low-barrier homeless navigation centers, provided noncompetitive and competitive funding to local jurisdictions and Continuums of Care for use towards solving homelessness.
Funding Allocations
Round 1 of HHAP funding approved in 2020 provided $445,266 and $500,000, respectively, to the County of Lake and the Lake County Continuum of Care. The bulk of funding for both entities was allocated towards the establishment of Lake County's first year-round homeless shelter and navigation center at Clearlake at the county's southeast end which experiences the greatest identified homeless concentration. Eight percent of each allocation was dedicated towards youth homelessness as required.
Round 2 funding approved in 2021 provided the County and the LCCoC with $203,550 and $250,000, respectively, allocated again towards the continuing operation of the homeless shelter successfully established with HHAP Round 1. The HHAP program is on its third round of local allocations (addressed with this Board agenda item), and a fourth round is anticipated in the near future.
Round 3 HHAP's NOFA dated December 2021 states the following: "HHAP Round 3 is designed to build on regional coordination developed through previous rounds of HCFC Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP), HHAP, and COVID-19 funding. Round 3 funds should be used to continue to build regional coordination...
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