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Alameda County staff present draft guidelines for local housing operating subsidy
Summary
Alameda County housing staff on July 22 presented draft guidelines for a local operating subsidy that would support permanent supportive housing for extremely low-income households; the program is unfunded but staff said it will be ready to deploy if funding becomes available and will be referred to the full Board for consideration.
Michelle Starett, Alameda County’s housing director, presented draft guidelines for a proposed local housing support program at the Board of Supervisors Health Committee meeting on July 22. The program is designed as an operating subsidy for extremely low-income renters who are formerly homeless, currently homeless or at risk of homelessness, and staff said the county has prepared rules so the program could be implemented if and when local funding is secured.
The draft guidelines limit funding to permanent supportive housing and explicitly exclude transitional housing. "This is an operating subsidy for extremely low-income renters who are either previously homeless, homeless now, or at risk of homelessness," Starett said. She told the committee…
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