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• The Alameda at San Leandro Crossings, which represents the initial development under the City's acclaimed 2007 Downtown Transit -Oriented Development Strategy, is a 100 - unit (including an on-site manager's unit) affordable family rental housing development for very low-income households. Project amenities at The Alameda include a bike room, 5,000 square feet of ground floor program space for a childcare center, parking structure with 100 spaces (plus six additional spaces on the access drive), landscaped courtyard, children's play area, multi-purpose community room with kitchen and adjacent patio, laundry room on each floor, and community garden. Once completed the affordability period for this property will be at least fifty-five (55) years. As already discussed, the development has been delayed. However, the City, City Redevelopment Agency, the developer BRIDGE Housing Corporation, and the private developer Westlake Development Partners, LLC are continuing to work diligently so that construction of the project may begin by Summer 2011. • In addition, City staff have continued to respond to inquiries from private and non-profit developers to acquire property and rehabilitate or build affordable rental units. • The City's Housing Rehabilitation Program for minor home repair grants and loans for owner -occupied homes provided twenty-four (24) grants and two (2) loans to homeowners to preserve and improve the ex' ing housing Mock and particularly to assist elderly homeowners to age in place. • From June 2009 through May 2010, City staff respo d to twenty-seven (27) tenant and landlord inquiries under the City's Rent Review Board Program, which provides a non- binding arbitration board review of eligible rent increase cases in San Leandro. Of the 27 inquiries, sixteen (16) were from landlords and eleven (11) were from tenants. There were no Rent Review Board cases during this period. This program is funded solely with City General Funds. • The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 authorized awarding federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funds to local governments to purchase vacant and foreclosed properties in order to assist in addressing the nation-wide foreclosure crisis. As a "Tier 2" jurisdiction, the City of San Leandro entered into a joint agreement, which the City Council approved on April 6. 2009, to file a joint application with other the "Tier 2" cities of Berkeley, Fremont, Livermore, and Union City in order to meet the $1 million threshold requirement and receive $2,230,495 in federal NSP 1 funds. With the City of Livermore acting as the "lead agency", the cities selected Hallmark Community Solutions (Hallmark) as the program contractor to use this pool of NSP1 funds to acquire, rehabilitate, and resell foreclosed and abandoned properties as well as process prospective income -eligible homebuyers for the purchased properties. Hallmark has successfully purchased four (4) single-family residential properties in Livermore. Two (2) of these Livermore homes will have its rehabilitation completed by the end of July, while the other two (2) homes will be rehabilitated by the end of August. Moreover, once one (1) Union City property closes escrow at the end of August, all of the $2,230,495 NSP funds would be fully committed. Hallmark, in addition, has begun DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2009-2010 City of San Leandro Page 27