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women and 63% of the women exited to long-term housing and/or employment. <br />With a CDBG grant, Project Literacy's literacy services help functionally illiterate people gain <br />literacy skills that they can apply in social, educational, employment, and community settings, <br />thereby increasing their independence and self sufficiency. Fifty-five percent (55%) of their 239 <br />students increased their independence and self sufficiency with new literacy skills. <br />Ongoing preservation of 700+ below-market rate units is an anti-poverty strategy, too, because <br />the City maintains HUD rent limits for very low, low, and moderate-income people and for <br />special populations like seniors and the disabled. <br />The City continues to seek opportunities to work with non-profit and for-profit developers to <br />build affordable rental and ownership housing. Presently, the City's Redevelopment Agency is <br />working with Mercy Housing California to convert the existing Islander Motel into affordable <br />permanent rental housing. <br />Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY2004-2005 <br />City of San Leandro <br />Page 19 <br />