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2011/12 1 2010/11- 2014/15 CITY OF SANTA ANA CONSOLIDATED PLAN <br />ACTION PLAN <br />costs, and has also added to the project timeline. These regulations have also prompted <br />some potential program participants to drop their request for rehabilitation assistance. <br />Nonetheless, the City will provide educational materials to program participants that <br />outline the need and benefits of identifying and eliminating lead -based paint hazards. <br />ANTI - POVERTY STRATEGY <br />The City has identified numerous factors it can influence to combat poverty. Activities and <br />services the City will implement during the 2011 -2012 Program Year to combat poverty <br />include the following: <br />• Affordable housing programs including rehabilitation, rental assistance, and creation of <br />new affordable housing units (via new construction or acquisition /rehabilitation). <br />• Homeless assistance including prevention activities, emergency shelter, transitional <br />housing, and access to permanent housing opportunities. Support services will be <br />blended with these activities. <br />• Public safety to prevent criminals from victimizing the poor. <br />• Public facility improvements to improve the overall infrastructure of the City, but more <br />specifically to eliminate public improvements /infrastructure that negatively impact <br />residential neighborhoods. <br />• Job training, job- search skills and job placement to provide those living in poverty with <br />employment opportunities that pay higher wages. <br />• Youth recreation and diversion services which provide youth living in poverty with <br />alternatives to gang and crime activities. <br />• The Housing Authority will continue to implement the Family Self- Sufficiency (FSS) <br />program, which will provide rental assistance, life skills training and referrals to <br />employment training for program participants. <br />As indicated above, pending reductions in HUD and local redevelopment funds will impede <br />the implementation of affordable housing activities. These same resources were also <br />identified by the City as the funding source for several of the activities aimed at reducing <br />poverty in the City. As with housing programs, the City will need to reevaluate which of the <br />planned activities aimed at reducing poverty in the community are still viable and /or which <br />will be scaled back due to budget cuts. <br />2011 -2012 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN 32 04/21/2011 <br />Exhibit 1 <br />