From: David Low
To: City Council FORWARD
Cc: , City Clerk; Ray Bramson
Subject: Letters from Destination: Home - Items 4.4 and 7.1 on 2/22 Agenda Date: Friday, February 18, 2022 3:22:17 PM
Attachments: DH Ltr to Mtn View City Council re MOU with County of Santa Clara.pdf DH Ltr to Mtn View City Council re Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot.pdf CAUTION: EXTERNAL EMAIL - Ensure you trust this email before clicking on any links or attachments.
Honorable Mayor & City Councilmembers,
Attached are two letters from Destination: Home Chief Operating Officer Ray Bramson offering our enthusiastic support of Item 4.4 (the Memorandum of Understanding with the County of Santa Clara) and Item 7.1 (the Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot) that you will be considering at your Feb. 22 meeting.
We believe both of these items are critically important to our community's efforts to end and prevent homelessness, and we look forward to working with you on both fronts.
Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions or would like to talk about these important issues further.
Thank you,
David
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DAVID LOW
Director of Policy & Communications
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DESTINATIONHOMESV.ORG
HONORARY COUNCIL
Hon. Ash Kalra
California State Assembly
Member
Hon. Sam Liccardo
Mayor, City of San Jose
Hon. Evan Low
California State Assembly
Member
Councilmember Raul Peralez
City of San Jose
Chuck Robbins
CEO, Cisco
Hon. Mike Wasserman
Santa Clara County Supervisor
Lived Experience
Advisory Board
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Roger Biscay
Cisco
Jan Bernstein Chargin
Gavilan College
Louis Chicoine
Abode Services
Dontae Lartigue
Razing the Bar
Miguel Márquez
County of Santa Clara
Jacky Morales-Ferrand
City of San Jose
Jennifer Loving
Destination: Home
Preston Prince
SCC Housing Authority
Joel John Roberts
PATH
Claudine Sipili
CityTeam
John A. Sobrato
The Sobrato Organization
Ben Spero
Spectrum Equity Investors
Nicole Taylor
Silicon Valley Community
Foundation
Ted Wang
Cowboy Ventures
Gary Wipfler
Apple
ENDING HOMELESSNESS IN SILICON VALLEY
February 18, 2022
Mayor & City Council
City of Mountain View
500 Castro Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Re: Programmatic Memorandum of Understanding Between County of Santa Clara and City of Mountain View (Item 4.4 on the Feb. 22 City Council Agenda)
Honorable Mayor & Councilmembers,
Thank you for your continued commitment to ending homelessness in our community.
Collaboration is key to effectively addressing our region’s homelessness crisis and that’s why we are so excited to see this proposed partnership between the County of Santa Clara and the City of Mountain View. Through this collaboration, the City of Mountain View will be able to leverage roughly $80 million in funding from the County to support the production of more desperately-needed affordable housing developments - which we know remains the most important strategy for ending and preventing homelessness in our community.
Destination: Home chose to partner with the City as one of its key partners through our capacity building grant program last year for exactly this type of collaborative and critical work. The City has truly been a leader in advancing solutions to homelessness, and the proposal before you today represents a key step towards achieving the City’s bold goal of developing 200-250 permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing units.
We urge you to adopt the proposed Memorandum of Understanding with the County of Santa Clara and stand ready to assist you in whatever way we can to help ensure these critically-important affordable housing developments move forward as quickly as possible.
Thank you,
Ray Bramson
Chief Operating Officer