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SECTION B: INVESTMENT OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES Goal A: Provide Decent Housing Priority # L Increase the availability of affordable rental housing for low- and moderate-income families. • The City supported the Alameda County Housing Authority's (ACHA) applications for additional Section 8 rental assistance vouchers that could be used for San Leandro residents. ACHA provided 1,178 Section 8 vouchers for rental assistance in San Leandro, including 59 new vouchers. • The City worked with three experienced regional non-profit developers to develop properties on East 14th Street, which is a major commercial and residential corridor that falls within two of the City's Redevelopment project areas. While two of these projects were not able to progress past the acquisition phase, the City worked closely for a year with one of the developers, Ecumenical Association for Housing, to acquire and build housing located on East 14th and Bancroft Streets. However, the City is still working with the third developer, Mercy Housing California (MHC). The City's Redevelopment Agency began the acquisition phase of a 67 unit, three-story, motel (Islander Motel) to transform the property into affordable rental housing. The Agency has been working with MHC on a property management and development plan. The Agency will eventually transfer this motel to MHC to own, develop, and manage it as affordable housing. Escrow is expected to close September 2005. • The Multi-family Management Assistance Program (MMAP) provided training to 29 owners and managers, 24 of them from San Leandro. The City continues to track requests for its apartment rehabilitation program, but there were no inquiries to date. Priority # 2. Preserve existing affordable rental and ownership housing for low- and moderate-income households. • The Owner Occupied Housing Rehabilitation Program for single-family houses provided eleven (11) housing rehabilitation loans, using Redevelopment Housing Set Aside Funds. Of these 11 loans, three (3) were to extremely low income, seven (7) to very low income, and one (1) to low-income households. • The Owner Occupied Housing Rehabilitation Program for minor home repairs provided 13 grants to home owners, seven (7) of which were for mobile home rehabilitation. Of Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY2004-2005 City of San Leandro Page 4