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housing stock and assisting seniors to age in place. The City also continued to use Redevelopment Set -Aside Funds to fund its Housing Rehabilitation and First -Time Homebuyer Programs. Most of the notable accomplishments with CDBG and HOME funds are mentioned above in earlier sections of this document. However, other accomplishments include Project Literacy serving 221 persons with special needs. Project Literacy also recruited and trained sixty-six (66) new tutors and provided the community with 18,609 tutor service hours. Staff and volunteers represent a diverse community (e.g., Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Filipino). Project Literacy offers ethnically and culturally diverse instructional resources for adult literacy students. Outreach services are provided in Spanish. Project Literacy provides parent literacy workshops and free children's book distributions at the Main Library and at community agencies which serve parents and their children, ages 0-4 years. Family Literacy clientele include teen mothers, low-income childcare providers and early education providers, CalWORKS single parents, and low -literacy parents. Project Literacy's computer lab also helps improve student's quality of life. Construction of the 51 -unit affordable senior rental housing Estabrook Place has been completed, and all fifty-one (5 1) new affordable senior rental units (including a unit reserved for the on-site manager) have been fully leased up and occupied. Furthermore, Mission Bell Apartments also continued to fulfill another Consolidated Plan's priority: to increase available service -enriched housing for people with special needs. Mission Bell has five (5) units set-aside for youth exiting from foster care, three (3) units for mentally disabled transition age youth adults, and two (2) units for adults with special needs (i.e. mentally ill and/or chronically homeless). The rehabilitation and refinancing of Mission Bell, moreover, also fulfills Priority # 2 of preserving affordable housing. Due to the continued slowdown in the for sale housing market, there was no new inclusionary housing unit that was sold to low-income homebuyer during this past year. There were twelve (12) loans, consisting of three (3) loans for low-income first-time homebuyers and nine (9) moderate -income first-time homebuyer, were approved for down payment/closing cost assistance under the City's First -Time Homebuyer Program (FTHB). With the ongoing demand for these loans, the City Council in February 2010 approved an additional $131,000 in Redevelopment Set -Aside funds for the loan program. The City sponsored two (2) free first-time homebuyer education seminars. In June 2010 Bay Area Home Buyer Agency (BARBA) conducted its annual post -purchase workshop which emphasized the resale and affordability requirements of their homes to existing homeowners. 4) Funds Used for National Objectives All of the CDBG funds were used for activities benefiting very low-, and low-income persons. Most of the funds were used for two (2) of CDBG's national objectives: provide a suitable living environment and decent housing. The City also used Redevelopment Set -Aside funds to preserve and improve housing stock through its Housing Rehabilitation Program and to assist eligible homebuyers under the First Time Homebuyer Program. 5) Acquisition, Rehabilitation or Demolition of Occupied Real Property City staff discussed housing development opportunities with several developers seeking funding DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2009-2010 City of San Leandro Page 34