City Council

(8) 22-0799-S2 HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS COMMITTEE REPORT relative to a follow up on the City’s Homelessness Prevention Programs. Recommendations for Council action, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF THE MAYOR: INSTRUCT the Community Investment for Families Department (CIFD) to assume the role of City Lead for the Homelessness Prevention System. AUTHORIZE the CIFD to execute a contract with the California State University Northridge (CSUN) to provide the following services and report to the Council with recommendations: Conduct a landscape analysis of City's prevention programs and provide recommendations on how to strategically implement the recommendations of the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA) report, dated May 24, 2023, as stated in the CLA report attached to the Council file (Council file No. 22-0799). Develop a business plan for the CIFD for their role as the City lead department for homelessness prevention and identify the resources, costs, and additional staffing required for the CIFD to carry out this new function and any resources, costs, or staffing needed. Identify the roles of other relevant departments working in homelessness prevention and a forum for the continued engagement of the department heads in the new homelessness prevention system. Identify the most optimal method of reporting on the prevention programs by the departments to the City lead and by the City lead to the Council. APPROVE $100,000 from the Additional Homeless Services to be transferred from Additional Homeless Services General City Purposes Fund No. 100/56, Account No. 000931, to Fund No. 100/21, Account No. 003040, Contractual Services Account, to be used to execute a 6-month contract, with options to extend, with the CSUN for a landscape analysis and development of business plan for the CIFD to implement the recommendations in the Council action of September 1, 2023 on homelessness prevention. AUTHORIZE the General Manager, CIFD, or designee, to: Amend the contract with CSUN to add the funding, amend the Scope of Work to include this work, and extend the term, as needed. Prepare Controller instructions or make necessary technical adjustments, including to the names of the funds and accounts recommended in the CLA report dated November 27, 2023, to implement the intent of these transactions; and, Authorize the Controller to implement these instructions. REQUEST the CIFD to include the United to House LA Citizen Oversight Committee as a consulted stakeholder in the Homelessness Prevention System. Fiscal Impact Statement: None submitted by the CLA. The City Administrative Officer has not completed a financial analysis of this report.