Destination:Home is an organization that reflects a diverse group of organizations and individuals who are working together to end homelessness in Santa Clara community. It includes leaders from local government, private sectors, philanthropic organizations and non-profit service poviders.
They know that solving homelessness will require smart public policies that advance proven solutions and get to the root causes of housing crisis. While Santa Clara County's public policy and advocacy work encompasses a wide range of issues, a major focus right now is on accelerating the development of more supportive and deeply affordable housing in local community. (Affordable就是住房費用不超過家庭月收入的三分之一。)
In their website: We know that housing solves homelessness, but for far too long, our community has not properly invested in permanent housing for our most vulnerable residents. At Destination:Home we continue to advocate for the “Housing First” strategies that prioritize connecting our homeless neighbors to permanent housing. (加州政府每年花在為流浪人士身上的錢，為他們提供各種服務以及他們所引起的監獄司法費用非常昂貴。Housing First是一個政策，就是先安排流浪人士固定住處，再為他們提供各種服務，諸如醫療、咨詢、戒癮等等，能夠大大降低費用。）
Thanks in part to advocacy of Destination:Home,
In 2015, the Santa Clara County Continuum of Care officially adopted the Housing First approach and centered the first countywide Community Plan to End Homelessness around a goal to connect 6,000 homeless individuals to permanent housing.
The 2016 Measure A Affordable Housing Bond is primarily focused on permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness – with 3,400 of the envisioned 4,800 new units allocated towards Permanent Supportive Housing and Rapid Rehousing.
The Santa Clara County Housing Authority adopted a policy aligning its Project Based Voucher allocation criteria to support the production of more permanent supportive housing units.
In 2018, the City of Mountain View adopted an affordable housing investment strategy that included a benchmark to create 200-250 permanent supportive or rapid rehousing units.
NOW, THE EXTREMELY LOW INCOME(ELI) HOUSING ARE PRIORITIZED (現在我們將解決極低收入家庭的住房問題提到優先地位。「極低收入」ELI家庭定義為中位數家庭收入的30%或以下，在我的住區這相當於年收入$4萬或以下。）
While Bay Area suffers from an overall lack of affordable housing, ending homelessness in this community will require more affordable housing that serves its lowest-income residents. Yet, this critically-needed type of housing remains among the most underproduced segments of our affordable housing inventory. (極低收入家庭需要公寓式的較小居住單元住宅，比較多地共用廚房、廁所、洗衣、院落等設施，在灣區這類住房太少。)
As a result, Destination:Home has ardently advocated for elected leaders to adopt policies that specifically prioritize the development of more ELI housing units, which serve the lowest-income residents in our community with the greatest risks of homelessness.
As a result of our advocacy:
In April 2019, the City of San Jose adopted a first-of-its-kind affordable housing investment policy that allocates 45% of its total affordable housing funds towards ELI housing production. At the time of its adoption, the new investment policy was projected to generate an additional $80 million in funding for ELI housing over the next five years.
Following the lead of the City of San Jose, the Santa Clara County Housing Authority set a goal to ensure that 45% of the housing units in its own housing development portfolio were reserved for ELI households.
DEVELOPMENT STREAMLINING (精簡房屋開發建造手續）
Lengthy and often cumbersome development processes can greatly slow down the pace of new affordable housing development, which is why Destination:Home continues to advocate for local and state laws that streamline affordable housing development. Therefore,
They joined statewide partners in successfully advocating for new landmark streamlining laws – AB 2162 & SB 35 – which have helped eliminate several layers of government review for permanent supportive housing and affordable housing projects that meet certain criteria. (Supportive housing就是在住宅區內配備醫療服務、咨詢、教育等等設施。）
They also led a coalition of non-profit supportive housing developers in advocating the City of San Jose to eliminate its commercial space requirements for 100% affordable housing developments. This proposal was overwhelmingly approved by the city’s General Plan 4-Year Review Task Force and will be considered by the City Council in 2021.
你如果住在灣區並且關心這方面的事態，可以關注Destination:Home這類的機構的消息，甚至
參與某些合作支持的行動。流浪人士也是我們的鄰舍，基督徒如果不希望他們經常在家附近閒坐，而且兒女無錢在附近買房，就應該深切關注這件公益事業，對嗎？
我曾經寫過
房主階級常常反對在自家附近建造任何多單元住房的問題，很多基督徒都是房主階級的一員，現在是你面對誰是你鄰舍問題的時候了。前兩天有一家本地
報紙San Jos Spotlight評論為甚麼投資那麼多，問題解決得還是那麼慢？--因為有太多代表房主階級的人聲音太大，反對在家附近蓋造建設！
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