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management, recovery groups, and job training and job placement services. In addition, space <br />in the Center will be available to a variety of other community-based organizations serving the <br />larger community of Alameda. <br />Alameda County Base Conversion Collaborative <br />HCD continues to work with the Alameda Point Collaborative and the Oakland Homeless <br />Collaborative. The Oakland Army Base Reuse Plan, (adopted in July 1998), includes the <br />allocation of 229,000 square feet of space on the base for the creation of a workforce <br />development campus designed to provide extended job training and supportive services for <br />homeless and other low-income individuals in the County. The goal of the campus is to <br />provide clients with the means necessary to enhance their long-term employability and wage <br />earning capacity. <br />Local Support of Homeless and Special Needs Service Programs <br />The City of San Leandro supports homeless and special needs service providers with CDBG and <br />General Funds. During FY 2005-06, the City will help fund operating costs for programs such as <br />the San Leandro Shelter for Women and Children (for homeless and victims of domestic abuse) <br />and Davis Street Family Resource Center (a community social service center). The City will also <br />continue to support services that help prevent homelessness such as landlord/tenant counseling <br />and fair housing services through CDBG funds and the Rental Assistance Program (which offers <br />eligible households with hardship cases security deposit or delinquent rental payment assistance) <br />through some General Fund aid. <br />PART III. OTHER ACTIONS <br />BARRIERS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING <br />Fundin <br />The lack of available funds for affordable housing activities continues to be a problem for the <br />City. Along with its CDBG funds, the City will also seek to maximize leveraging of its available <br />HOME, Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside and McKinney Act Refunding Agreement funds <br />towards affordable housing activities in the coming fiscal year with any other funding resources <br />it can utilize, <br />T anr~ (~'nctc <br />New construction and acquisition rehabilitation of housing will be impacted by the high cost of <br />land in the Bay Area. The viability and feasibility of future City assisted affordable housing <br />Acuai Plan - FY2005-06 <br />City of San Leandro <br />Page 9 <br />