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HHS presents strategic plan, housing gains and staffing, funding pressures in 2025–26 budget
Summary
Health and Human Services director Rob Oldham outlined a new three‑year strategic plan, a record increase in permanent supportive housing units, growth in Medi‑Cal population and rising audit and compliance and contractor management burdens; HHS requested no supplemental general‑fund increases for 2025–26.
Rob Oldham, director of Health and Human Services (HHS), presented the department’s 2025–26 budget update on April 30, emphasizing a new three‑year strategic plan, expanded homelessness housing capacity and continued pressures from state policy changes, growing caseloads and audit/compliance demands.
Oldham said HHS added 96 permanent supportive housing units in the prior year — a county record — and has an application pending for another 55 units. He said the county’s point‑in‑time count remained roughly flat (about 16 per 10,000 residents), a rate that Oldham said compares favorably with many jurisdictions. HHS described recent successes in Homekey applications and other housing projects and credited cross‑departmental work, including county…
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