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traffic reconfiguration, streetscape enhancements and pedestrian and lighting amenities. Businesses have responded positively with faltade and building improvements and new development has occurred on once blighted sites. Housing The housing objectives of the San Leandro Redevelopment Agency 2004-09 Implementation Plan, City of San Leandro Housing Element, City Housing Strategy for 2003-06 and the City's U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 2005-2009 Consolidated Plan address the underserved housing needs of households and families in San Leandro. One of the primary goals in these City housing plans is to provide programs that foster and maintain affordable housing. The Agency is a crucial funding source and has effectively leveraged set-aside funds with other sources in cooperation with non-profit developers and the City in achieving these goals. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33080.1 (c), notable Agency-assisted housing activities for FY 2005-06 include: . The Agency acquired the Islander Motel with set-aside funds in September 2005. This property has been a neighborhood blight for decades and will be developed into a 68-unit affordable apartment. The Agency determined there were 18 very low and low income households residing in the Islander Motel prior to the acquisition who were eligible for relocation benefits. The Agency worked closely with each household to ensure they were properly relocated under State Redevelopment law. The Agency entered into a Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) with Mercy Housing California (MHC), an experienced regional nonprofit housing developer, in June 2006. Through the DDA, MHC will serve as project developer and long-term property manager, but the Agency will maintain ownership of the building. Also under the DDA, the Agency committed to loaning Mercy up to $884,000 in set-aside funds to assist with development costs. MHC is planning to begin construction in February 2007. . The Agency staff worked closely with Allied Housing, Inc., a nonprofit housing developer, to acquire the privately owned mixed use Mission Bell Apartment building. Allied will be restricting all 25 residential units (which were previously designated as very low, low, moderate and market rate) to extremely and very low income renters, creating 5 new restricted units (from market rate to very low income units), and extending the affordability period 55 years to 2061. Allied also agreed to assume the seller's existing rehabilitation loan funded with set-aside funds from several years ago. Therefore, there was no new net funding from the Agency into this project, nor were any of the existing tenants displaced.