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San Leandro Housing Element Implementation Program: 2010 Annual Element Progress Report —Table C pg 2 Name of Coal /Program Action Objectives /Summary of ActionsI'imefrome in Status of Program Implementation H.E. Funding Action 53.03 -A: Pursue opportunities for affordable housing, including annual CDBG and HOME Ongoing ADVANCE: Regular function of Housing Division. Received annual 2010 Applications for Grant funding. entitlement grants for CDBG & HOME funds. City pursues and leverages these Funding and other local funds (i.c., RDA Housing Set Aside funds) and pursues other affordable housing funds as needed on a project -by- project basis. Funding Action 53.03 -B: Provide support and information to developers to build affordable housing, Ongoing ADVANCE: Regular function of Housing Division and RDA. City works with Support for Non -Profit including assistance in applications for LIlffCs, MRBs, and Affordable Housing developers to leverage funds for affordable housing development on a project -by- and For - Profit Program funds. Work with Business Development Dept. to advertise local project basis. Successfully assisted Eden (lousing to complete Estabrook Project Affordable Housing development opportunities. in 2010 and is currently assisting BRIDGE Housing with The Alameda project. Developers Funding Action 53.03 -C: Maintain a local affordable housing trust fund with in -lieu fees from the Ongoing ADVANCE: Regular function of Housing Division. Staff maintains an Affordable Affordable !lousing inclusionary zoning program and condo conversion fees. }lousing Trust Fund created under the Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance from in -lieu Trust Fund and condo conversion fees. Funding Action 53.03 -D: Support affordable housing bond measures at the State and County level. Lobby ongoing ADVANCE: Function of Housing Division/RDA, as needed. RDA approved a Affordable !lousing for and participate in discussions of such bonds if and when they are being $9.1 million development loan in April 2009 for The Alameda at San Leandro Bonds developed or proposed. Crossings, a 100 -unit affordable rental development. The majority of the loan will be bonded once the nonprofit, BRIDGE Housing, is prepared to begin construction. Inclusionary !lousing Action 53.04 -A: Comply with redevelopment agency law requiring 15% of all new units in Ongoing ACHIEVED: City exceeded State requirement in 2010 for very low income Redevelopment Area redevelopment areas to be set aside as affordable. Comply with State law to set (VLI) units with completion of two 100% affordable rental projects: Istabrook lnclusionary Housing aside 40% of these units for very low income households. Projects that receive Place (50 VLI units) and potentially with The Alameda (99 proposed VI-I units). Policy financial assistance from the Redevelopment Agency must set aside a higher percentage of affordable units. Inclusionary Housing Action 53.04 -B: Revise the Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance (1Z) (Zoning Code Article 301 to 2010 -2011 ADVANCE: No action to date. Zoning Code amendment(s) would require Revisions to incorporate "lessons learned" since its adoption and to be more responsive to Council action. Inclusionary Zoning market fluctuations. Increase low and very low affordable units and achieve Ordinance geographic dispersal. Consider IZ applying to SF homes and projects of 10 -19 units and input provided by developers, builders, realtors, and housing advocates. Site Assembly in Action 53.05 -A: Prepare promotional materials for residential and mixed use development Ongoing ADVANCE: Regular function of Housing Division and RDA/Business Redevelopment Areas Marketing of Housing opportunities, particularly around the Downtown and Bayfair BART Stations and Development. Staff has been working with a developer to explore development Development the East 14th Street corridor. Pursue grant funding for visual simulations and other opportunities on the former Albertson's site on E. 14 Street and the Town Hall Opportunities c ducational media which illustrate high - density housing prototypes (especially Square site. Staff continues to explore grant funding opportunities. along East 141h Street and around the BART Stations) and respond to neighborhood concerns about higher density housing. "Ar. "'shades the whm has been nmunplith d..bik "AMANCE " menu it n ongoing or should be corned f finnan! to 1011 -2014. "RETiAr. t meant the annim.thuld M replaced with n rune or nuelified program to curry OW the policy.