PARTIAL LIST OF SHELTER/SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE COUNTY OF
SANTA CLARA FOR THE HOMELESS*

APRIL 12, 2002
SHELTER

Cold Weather Shelter (300 beds,4 months)
Children’s Shelter(132 beds)

$

Foster Care

Emergency Shelter & Crises Services (Status Offenders)
Transitional Housing Units (50 Drug & Alcohol)
General Fund for Community Organizations
Providing shelter for homeless
(San Jose Organizations - $642,668)

337,050
6,655,143
24,826,256
511,031
300,000

2,343,196

HOUSING

75,000

Rental Assistance

Fairgrounds Revitalization Project
(Partnership with City, Housing Authority, and Private
Developer to provide 560 units, 75% affordable)
Housing Trust of Santa Clara County

(County provided $2,250,000 to date)
SERVICES

77,184

Reduced Transit Pass Project
(San Jose Clients - $56,832)
Drug and Alcohol Homeless Project
Mental Health Advocacy Project

243,826
380,737

Mental Health Street Homeless- Estimated 450 Clients

(According to the University ofPennsylvania Study “The Impact ofSupportive
Housingfor Homeless People with Severe Mental Illness on the Utilization ofthe Public
Health, Corrections and Emergency Shelter Systems: the New York Initiative”
May 2001

street Mental Health Homeless clients use $40,449 in public services per year.)
18,202,050

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

Administrative costs for the Continuum of Care/SuperNOFA
YEARLY TOTAL

93,000

$54,044,473

*Source -“County of Santa Clara Final Budget, Fiscal Year 2002
Submitted by Margaret M. Gregg
County of Santa Clara
Homeless Concerns Coordinator