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City staff outlines draft 2025–2030 consolidated-plan needs assessment: seniors, disabled and homelessness top local priorities
Summary
Staff presented results of the Contra Costa consortium’s needs assessment for the HUD 2025–2030 consolidated plan, highlighting local emphasis on affordable housing for seniors and people with disabilities, eviction/foreclosure support, and senior and disabled services.
City staff presented the draft 2025–2030 consolidated-plan community needs assessment on Jan. 21, outlining priorities to guide use of federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.
The needs-assessment work was conducted countywide through the Contra Costa Consolidated Plan consortium and supplemented by three Walnut Creek focus groups with Trinity Center (seniors), senior residents and formerly homeless residents at St. Paul’s Commons. Allison (staff) said the city’s profile — an older population with smaller households — leads Walnut Creek to prioritize senior services, supportive housing and shelter services relative to countywide priorities for family and youth services.
The nut graf: because CDBG funding represents roughly half of the city’s community grants budget, staff recommended aligning the city’s priorities to emphasize affordable and supportive housing for seniors and people with disabilities, home-rehabilitation assistance, eviction/foreclosure support and non-housing services such as mental-health referrals, nutrition and job training.
Staff noted that the consolidated plan is a HUD-required five-year planning document; annual action plans will still allow each jurisdiction to select local projects. Staff said draft priorities are consistent with the city’s current community grant program and that recommendations will be reviewed by the Housing and Community Development Committee and later presented to council for adoption.
No council vote was required on the informational report; council members thanked staff for the analysis and had no substantive changes. The city will forward council feedback to the consortium as it finalizes the draft consolidated plan later this spring.
