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<br />Most of the notable accomplishments with CDBG and HOME funds are mentioned above in <br />earlier sections of this document. However, other accomplishments include ECHO Housing <br />meeting and exceeding all of its fair housing goals. ECHO Housing also exceeded 53% of its <br />goals for tenant/landlord counseling services. Additionally, Project Literacy served 238 persons <br />with special needs, exceeding their goal by 59%. Project Literacy also recruited and trained 155 <br />new tutors and provided the community with 19,232 tutor service hours. Staff and volunteers <br />represent a diverse community - e.g., Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Tagalog. Project Literacy <br />offers ethnically and culturally diverse instructional resources for adult literacy students. <br />Outreach services are provided in Spanish. Project Literacy provides parent literacy workshops <br />and free children's book distributions at the main library and at community agencies which serve <br />parents and their children, ages 0-4 years. Family Literacy clientele include teen mothers, low- <br />income childcare providers and early education providers, CalWORKs single parents, and low- <br />literacy parents. Project Literacy's computer lab helps improve each student's quality oflife, too. <br /> <br />Renovation work for the 68-unit Casa Verde for affordable apartments began in FY2006-07. <br />This project will add 67 new affordable rental units (which does not include one unit reserved for <br />the on-site manager). Construction and lease-up completion are expected by Spring 2008. <br />permanent rental housing. Mission Bell Apartments also will help fulfill another Consolidated <br />Plan's priority: to increase available service-enriched housing for people with special needs. <br />Allied Housing has set aside at least four units for youth exiting from foster care. Seven former <br />foster care clients are tenants now. Two non-profit agencies, Tri-City Homeless Coalition and <br />Fred Finch Youth Center provide supportive services for these and other eligible tenants at <br />Mission Bell Apartments. <br /> <br />Eighteen (18) new affordable rental or ownership housing units were created through a <br />condominium conversion (Willows Townhomes) under the City's Inclusionary and Density <br />Bonus Ordinances. There are three for-sale projects that will likely enter into lnclusionary <br />Housing Agreements with the City in FY2007-08. <br /> <br />There were two loans approved for downpayment/closing cost assistance under the City's First- <br />Time Homebuyer Program (FTHB). City staff is continuing to find ways to expand marketing <br />opportunities for the program. The free, quarterly FTHB education seminars sponsored by the <br />City have been successful in educating prospective homebuyers. The City also contracted in <br />FY2006-07 with Bay Area Homebuyer Agency to provide customized individual homebuyer <br />counseling that includes credit counseling and referral to alternative funding sources such as the <br />Workforce Initiative Subsidy for Homeownership (WISH) matching funds program. <br /> <br />The City has a policy of completing CDBG-funded projects in a timely manner to assure that the <br />grant money is spent. Staff worked assiduously on this goal and successfully succeeded in <br />timely CDBG grant expenditures. <br /> <br />4) Funds Used for National Objectives <br />All of the CDBG funds were used for activities benefiting very low-, low- and moderate-income <br />persons. Most of the funds were used for two ofHUD's national objectives: provide a suitable <br />living environment and decent housing. The City also used Redevelopment funds to preserve <br />and improve housing stock through its Housing Rehabilitation Program. The City's Office of <br />Business Development primarily creates projects for economic opportunity using <br /> <br />Final Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY2006-2007 <br />City of San Leandro <br />Page 26 <br />
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