RES-11145 Housing Finance TrustRESOLUTION NO. 11145
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ORANGE AUTHORIZING EXECUTION
OF THE JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY
AGREEMENT FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE
ORANGE COUNTY HOUSING FINANCE TRUST.
WHEREAS,homelessness in the Orange County region has increased over time to at least
4,500 people as of the 2017 Point in Time Count; and
WHEREAS, homelessness locally is a result of various causes that can include a lack of
afFordable and supportive housing units, the high cost of workforce housing, a shortage of jobs
that result in wages that pay for local rents, mental illness and substance use, the high cost of land
and housing development, and more; and
WH REAS,as homelessness increases,it causes crises that can be humanitarian,financial
and impact community safety, as Orange County residents and others without adequate shelter
reside in and on communities' public facilities, including streets,pazks, sidewalks,transit centers,
riverbeds and storm channels,restrooms, libraries, and more; and
WHEREAS,a 2017 study conducted by United Way of Orange County and the University
of California, Irvine estimates the cost of homelessness to our Orange County community
resources and facilities to be in the range of$300 million per yeaz(based on 2014-15 dollazs), and
likely growing; and
WIIEREAS, families, children, the aged, our veterans, and persons with mental illness
and other disabilities aze all subject to homelessness depending on their individual circumstances,
and all aze worthy of our community's respect and care; and
WHEREAS,the provision of adequate housing for persons formerly homeless can include
a range of housing types, from emergency and bridge shelters to transitional housing to rapid
rehousing to supportive housing to affordable housing; and
WHEREAS, in Orange County, there appeazs to be a shortfall of beds and units in each
housing category, making the goal of ending homelessness in our region extremely difficult to
attain without adding more housing units; and
WH REAS, the concept of adding to the supply of supportive housing, where a person
who may have formerly been homeless is able to secure and maintain his or her housing when
services are provided to the individual to help them stay successfully in housing, is deemed to be
beneficial to solving especially the needs of the chronically homeless; and
WHEREAS, in 2018, Orange County leaders worked to develop and secure legislation
that created a joint powers mechanism that would shaze the power of securing funding for various
types of housing that can address our homelessness crisis, with a focus on developing more
supportive housing units; and
WHEREAS, this legislation (AB 448) allowed for the crearion of the Orange County
Housing Finance Trust, a joint powers authority established to secure both public and private
dollazs and ensure that Orange County as a region attains its shaze of State resources approved by
California residents and the California Legislature to address housing and homelessness by
providing more housing units, especially supportive housing; and
WI REAS, on Mazch 12, 2019, the County of Orange approved the formation of the
Orange County Housing Finance Trust joint powers authority (Trust); and
WHEREAS, in order to join the Trust, ciries in Orange County may execute the joint
powers agreement with the County that sets forth the roles and responsibilities of inembers of the
Trust, as well as its governance struchue; and
WI3 REAS,the City of Orange desires to join the Orange County Housing Finance Trust.
NOW, TFIEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City af Orange
as follows:
Section 1. The City's membership in the Orange County Housing Finance Trust, as
described by the attached Joint Powers Agreement (Exhibit 1), is hereby authorized.
Section 2. The Mayor is hereby authorized to execute the Joint Powers Agreement on
the City's behalE
ADOPTED this 9th day of Apri12019.
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Maz c A. Murphy, Ma r, ty of Orange
ATTEST:
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Pamela Coleman, City Clerk, Ciry of Orange
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STATE OF CALIFOItNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF ORANGE
I, PAMELA COLEMAN, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Resolurion was duly and regulazly adopted by the CiTy Council of the CiTy of
Orange at a regulaz meeting thereof held on the 9th day of Apri12019,by the following vote:
AYES: COLJNCILMEMBERS: Alvazez, Murphy,Nichols, Monaco
NOES: COiJNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COiJNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COLTNCILMEMBERS: None
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Pamela Coleman, City Clerk, City of Orange
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