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Recommendation to receive and file a report from the Everyone Home Long Beach Taskforce. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On May 21, 2018, Mayor Robert Garcia launched the Everyone Home Long Beach
(EHLB) Initiative to address housing and homelessness in the City of Long Beach (City).
Designed to build on the City's comprehensive homeless services and affordable housing
efforts already underway, EHLB seeks innovative approaches to provide new pathways
into housing and prevent residents from falling into homelessness.
On June 15, 2018, the City convened the EHLB Taskforce {Taskforce), chaired by Jane
Close Conoley, President, California State University Long Beach. The Taskforce was
comprised of leaders from a diverse group of Long Beach institutions and organizations.
The focus of the Taskforce was to understand service and housing needs in the
community, review existing homeless services and low-income housing efforts, develop
recommendations to prevent homelessness, identify new opportunities to support those
experiencing homelessness to achieve housing, and to create opportunities for increased
access to low-income housing. The Taskforce held five meetings between the months of
June and November 2018, and provided the following materials and/or presentations:
• Taskforce Meeting Agendas (Attachment A)
• June 15, 2018 Taskforce Meeting Presentation (Attachment B)
• July 20, 2018 Taskforce Meeting Presentation (Attachment C)
• August 17, 2018 Taskforce Meeting Presentation (Attachment D)
• September 21, 2018 Taskforce Meeting Presentation (Attachment E)
• Continuum of Care Governance Charter (Attachment F)
Additionally, attached for your reference is a brochure titled "A Decade of Affordable
Housing," which showcases several of the City's new affordable housing developments
completed over the past decade, and highlights other achievements pertaining to the
production and preservation of affordable housing (Attachment G).
The Taskforce provided governance, financ...
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