Item 14 - HA Item 03 -Agreement between the City of Santa Ana and Housing Authority of the City of Santa Ana for Transitional Age Services

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Agreement with Orangewood Foundation for Services Coordination for Transitional Age Youth and Former Foster Youth August 19, 2025 Page 3 5 2 7 4 landlords to reduce barriers to lease-up. To do this, Orangewood will subcontract with WelcomeHome OC, a housing navigation and landlord incentive program operated by United to End Homelessness and Orange County United Way, which recruits landlords and provides housing navigation services across Orange County. Under the Agreement, annually, Orangewood is anticipated to serve a minimum of six (6) TAY households per year with short-term housing placements and 25 TAY households with FYI vouchers per year with housing navigation and landlord engagement. Once FYI voucher holders are successfully housed, Orangewood will deliver ongoing independent living skills and wraparound case management to help youth attain and maintain stable housing. These services include household furnishings, rent payments, car repairs, other emergency expenses, budgeting, employment readiness, transportation planning, conflict resolution, and connection to physical and behavioral health services. Orangewood is anticipated to serve a minimum of 28 TAY households per year with independent living skills and case management support. The agreement prioritizes youth residing at the Santa Ana Navigation Center and ensures a coordinated, responsive system of support in collaboration with the City and the Housing Authority. Background on Funding Sources The total cost of the three-year agreement with Orangewood is not to exceed $632,839. This amount will be fully funded through non-City sources: $587,839 from the State of California’s HHAP Round 5 program and $45,000 from HUD under the FYI program’s Special Fee Set-Aside funds. The City is responsible for administering the $587,839 in HHAP Round 5 funds, and the Housing Authority is responsible for administering the $45,000 in FYI program Special Fee Set-Aside funds, ensuring that both funding sources are used in accordance with applicable state and federal requirements. Staff are combining and braiding these two funding sources together under this Agreement to maximize their impact for TAY with FYI vouchers from the Housing Authority. In this arrangement, the $587,839 in HHAP Round 5 funds leverages the Housing Authority’s FYI vouchers, while the $45,000 in FYI Special Fee Set-Aside funds supplements and enhances the HHAP-funded services restricted for TAY. Additional details on each funding source is provided below. The HHAP Round 5 (HHAP-5) funds are flexible block grant dollars administered by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to support cities, counties, and Continuums of Care to reduce and end homelessness. HHAP-5 grantees must set aside at least 10% of the grant allocation for services for homeless youth. Homeless youth is defined as unaccompanied youth between ages 12- and 24-years old experiencing homelessness, including pregnant and parenting youth (the FYI voucher program can only serve youth ages 18 to 24). On March 18, 2025, the City Council recognized the City’s HHAP-5 agreement with the State (Agreement No. 24-HHAP- 10007) that authorized $5.87 million in funding. The City intends to spend $3.8 million for shelter services for homeless, $979,066 for outreach and engagement, and the City is allocating 10% for this youth set-aside requirement ($587,839) from the $687,839 allocated for services coordination. The agreement with Orangewood is consistent with