Section 8255.
8255. For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Council” means the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, formerly known as the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council established pursuant to Section 8257. (b) “Core components of Housing First” means all of the following: (1) Tenant screening and selection practices that promote accepting applicants regardless of their sobriety or use of substances, […]
Section 8256.
8256. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), agencies and departments administering state programs created on or after July 1, 2017, shall collaborate with the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First. (b) By July 1, 2019, except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), agencies and […]
Section 8257.
8257. (a) The Governor shall create an Interagency Council on Homelessness. (b) The council shall have all of the following goals: (1) To oversee implementation of this chapter. (2) To identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. (3) To create partnerships among state agencies and departments, local government agencies, participants […]
Section 8257.1.
8257.1. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to obtain trustworthy information to connect funding allocated to prevent and end homelessness with established sheltering and housing resources and to provide state agencies with accurate information to allow for more accurate forecasting to target future investments. To advance these goals, the coordinating council shall, upon appropriation […]
Section 8257.2.
8257.2. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of designing, collecting data for, and approving the assessment described in Section 8257.1, a state agency that has a member on the coordinating council shall, within 60 days of a request for data pertaining to that state agency, provide to the council, or the entity conducting the assessment, […]