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2. Preserve existing affordable rental and ownership housing for low and <br />moderate-income households. <br />• The single family housing rehabilitation program, using the Redevelopment <br />Housing Set Aside Fund, rehabilitated five homes. <br />• The minor home repair program provided grants to 32 home owners, 10 of <br />which were for mobile home rehabilitation. The program was funded with <br />Redevelopment Housing Set Aside funds. <br />3. Assist low and moderate-income first time homebuyers. <br />• The City participates with the Alameda County Program in the Mortgage <br />Credit Certificate Program providing administrative funding for the MCC <br />processing. Four households received MCCs to help them purchase a home. <br />• Nine loans for down payments were provided to moderate income families <br />(120 percent of AMI). Eight below market rate units (BMR) were purchased in <br />the Cherrywood housing project and one on Carpentier Street. An additional <br />BMR unit was purchased without down payment assistance through the First <br />Time Homebuyer Program. <br />• The City continues to promote the California Home Source, Home Ownership <br />Lease Purchase program, in San Leandro. <br />4. Reduce housing discrimination. <br />• The City contracted with ECHO Housing, Inc., a regional non-profit fair <br />housing agency, to provide fair housing services. During FY 2003-04, ECHO <br />investigated 12 complaints of alleged housing discrimination. <br />• Fair Housing counselors conducted 12 training sessions for landlords, <br />property managers, social service agencies and tenants on fair housing rights <br />and responsibilities. They raised awareness in the community through public <br />service announcements, newspaper advertisements and distribution of fliers. <br />• Testers were used to conduct an audit of housing complexes to determine the <br />prevalence of discrimination based on a specific protected class, disabled <br />persons with a guide dog. Results showed that nine of the 24 landlords <br />tested discriminated. The discriminating landlords were invited to a training <br />session on fair housing. None of the discriminating landlords attended the <br />training. However, two of the nine called ECHO for fair housing information. <br />Of the rest (seven), ECHO re-tested two with inconclusive results. The <br />remaining (five) could not be re-tested since there were no vacancies <br />available. <br />4 <br />