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POLICY ADVOCACY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Increasing Orange Countys Affordable Housing Opportunities Tackling Affordable Housing and Homelessness During and After COVID19 A Framework and Package for Immediate and LongTerm Policy Solutions As leaders in the affordable housing advocacy community we have developed this framework of solutions to guide decisionmakers as they respond to affordable housing and homelessness challenges exposed and exacerbated by the COVID19 emergency especially for the 3. 4 million lowincome renters who are now bearing the brunt of the pandemics impacts. Even before the coronavirus California faced a shortfall of 1. 4 million homes affordable to those struggling the most 150000 people experienced homelessness on any given night and more than three out of four extremely lowincome households paid more than 50 of their income on rent.