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Are Major Goals on Target? Several of the major goals deal with producing or rehabilitating housing within San Leandro. The City adopted a Housing Strategy to implement the Housing Element of the General Plan. The Housing Strategy targets funding on the production of 194 new multifamily rental units. The City staff met with many developers seeking funding and sites. As a result, several affordable, multifamily-rental housing projects are being processed. The Housing Strategy anticipated production of housing for moderate income (120 percent of AMI) households through the development of an inclusionary zoning ordinance. The proposed policies in an ordinance were part of the Housing Strategy and the Council will consider the new ordinance in July with the ordinance becoming effective, if passed, in October 2004. Several special needs and supportive housing projects have been completed or are under construction: The Owner Occupied Housing Rehabilitation Program has become much more effective. The City allocated $400,000 for FY 2003-04 with all of the funds committed to rehabilitation projects. In fact, the $400,000 for FY 2004-05 is already committed to rehabilitation projects and the new fiscal year has just started. The City will again apply for state funds to rehabilitate more houses in order to meet the major goal of improving the housing stock and assisting seniors to age in place. The City had a goal of providing social services to 10,675 persons which was exceeded by 6,300 persons in only the fourth year of the Consolidated Plan. These numbers only reflect funding with CDBG. Even with the very bad budget situation in the City, the City Council has remained committed to providing General Fund monies for social services. Adjustments or improvements to strategies and activities The present activities are effective in meeting needs. If there were more funds, especially for housing programs, a great many more families would have their lives changed. Programs such as housing rehabilitation and home buyer impact only about 20 families a year. The City is considering several financial strategies in the future to increase funding for housing projects and programs. As the last year under the five year plan starts, the City is looking forward to the development of the 2005-2010 Consolidated Plan, identifying housing and community development needs, outcomes to address the needs, programs or actions to achieve the outcomes, and expected outputs. 2. CDBG NARRATIVE a. Relationship of the use of CDBG funds to priorities, needs, goals and specific obiectives. (See Exhibit A, Comparison of Goals and Objectives). b. Changes in program obiectives. During this program year there were no changes to the program objectives and no amendments were made to the Annual Plan. c. Assessment of efforts in cawing out planned actions. The City pursued all of the resources that it indicated that it would pursue. The City provided the requested certifications of consistency with the Consolidated Plan for HUD 16