2023-2027 Continuum of Care
Homelessness Strategic Plan
(and a bit more) COTATI CITY COUNCIL
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2023
Presentation
Summary
About the CoC Strategic Plan
◦Three Themes
◦Priority Action Steps
Putting the Strategic Plan into
Action
Related Items – PIT Count
2023-2027 CoC
Homelessness Strategic Plan
Sponsored by/Undertaken by the Continuum of Care
Took a year to complete
Extensive stakeholder involvement
Multiple public hearings once the draft was finalized
Involved discussion, compromise, and re-drafts
The numbers:
◦ Three main themes
◦ Seven high priorities
◦ Eighteen strategies
◦ About 90+ action steps
Three Main Themes
More Housing, Better
Prevention
• 200 more units needed of
interim housing
• 1,000 more units needed
of Permanent Supportive
Housing (PSH)
Stronger Supportive
Services
• Our service providers are
strained – we need to do
better
• Re-orient how we
approach outreach, and do
it consistently
Operate as One Coordinated
System
• Adopt and follow a longterm funding strategy
• Evaluate programs better –
direct funding accordingly
• Communicate better
across the board
• Address inequity, including
replacing the VI-SPDAT
2023 Priority
Action Steps
Add 100 non-congregate shelter beds and 200 PSH
Adopt the long-term funding strategy
Communicate better
Evaluate programs on performance
Move to:
◦ A Single By Names List
◦ Subregional street outreach
Replace the VI-SPDAT
Strengthen and prioritize existing supportive services
Prevention inventory - prevention works, but what works best?
Reasons for optimism
We have a number to shoot for – 200 IH + 1,000 PSH
We are close to finalizing the long-term funding plan – it will show that what we want to do is challenging but doable.
We have a commitment across the system of care to work
together, and the right people in the right places.
We’re starting to use data and performance metrics better This CAN be solved – we know how to reach Functional Zero ◦ Being unhoused is brief, one-time, rare – no more chronic homelessness.
Biggest
Challenges:
Consistency of funding & application of funding (right
sources going to the right strategies)
Siting! The Sonoma County public either needs to be OK
with encampments or we need more program sites (the
latter is better)
Our supportive services network is strained post-COVID
Being willing to bust things up and start again with what works
New construction is still very costly in Sonoma County – how can we best maximize new while repurposing
existing?