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County approves HAP4 awards with board direction; staff to report on countywide prevention and HUD 2026 action plan wins funding for recuperative care
Summary
After providers pressed for more central‑county prevention funding, the Board approved staff recommendations for HAP4 and the HUD 2026 action plan while directing staff to explain how awards create a countywide prevention network and to return with options to augment funding at budget time.
The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors voted April 7 to approve staff recommendations for HAP4 homelessness‑prevention grants and a separate HUD 2026 action plan that together fund prevention, rapid rehousing, outreach and several affordable‑housing and rehabilitation projects.
The vote followed extensive public comment from local providers and a sustained exchange among supervisors about geographic gaps in the HAP4 awards. Supervisor Gibson pressed staff and colleagues to address an apparent omission: no HAP4 funds in the central part of the county (San Luis Obispo city, Los Osos and surrounding areas). Gibson proposed augmenting prevention funding roughly $150,000 from county reserves to fill the gap and urged a clearer countywide strategy.
County staff said the HAP4 recommendations were made after a second RFP…
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