CC 04-02-2025 Item No. 8. MOU for Feasibility Study_Staff PresentationNicky Vu, Senior Housing Coordinator
April 2, 2025
West Valley Cities Shelter Feasibility
Memorandum of Understanding
Agenda
●Current gaps in service for the unhoused
●Obligations to state and legal implications
●West Valley Cities Should Feasibility MOU
Homelessness in Santa Clara County and the City of
Cupertino
Measure of Homelessness Santa Clara
County
City of
Cupertino
Point-in-Time Count, January 2023
(Results for the 2025 PIT Count will be
available in late Spring 2025)
9,903 people
were
experiencing
homelessness
in Santa Clara
County
48 people
were
experiencing
homelessness
in the City of
Cupertino
7,401 (75%) of
them were
unsheltered
48 (100%) of
them were
unsheltered
Background
●The City of Cupertino does not have a shelter
available to the general public year-round
●Seasonal Shelter - Rotating Safe Car Park (two
months)
●Special Needs Shelter - Maitri (DV Women’s
Shelter)
Types of Shelters
Location of County Shelters
Legal and Fair Housing Concerns
●Recent and ongoing lawsuits (Adom Ratner-
Stauber v. City of Los Angeles)
●Rights of unhoused people on public land
when shelter is not available
●Rights of private property owners when
unhoused people are forced off of public land
●Fair Housing (AB1304)
●Appear impartial but result in segregative or
exclusionary housing distribution
●California Fair Housing law applies to all
shelters
Housing Element
Strategy HE 5.1.1
●Emergency Shelters
Strategy HE 5.1.4
●Low Barrier Navigation Center and
Supportive Housing
West Valley Shelter Feasibility Study
●Study the needs and feasibility of
developing temporary housing and
emergency shelter for the unhoused in
the West Valley
●Campbell – Lead jurisdiction
●Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte
Sereno – Participating jurisdictions
Campbell’s Responsibilities
●Procure, manage, and fund
consultant agreement – Good City
Company
●$99,000
Cupertino’s Responsibilities
●Participate in study, provide data
●Present findings to City Council upon
completion (Aug 2025)
●$0
Staff Recommendation
Authorize the City Manager to
execute the Memorandum of
Understanding for the West Valley
Shelter Feasibility Study