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and income level, with regard to fair housing issues. Number of San Leandro Residents with Fair Housing Inquiries and Complaints Served by ECHO’s Fair Housing Program CATEGORY PERSONS SERVED PERCENT SERVED Hispanic 8 35% Non-Hispanic 15 65% White 11 48% Black/African American 10 43% Asian 0 0% American Indian/Alaskan Native 0 0% Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander 0 0% American Indian/Alaskan Native & White 0 0% Asian & White 0 0% Black/African American & White 0 0% American Indian/Alaskan Native & Black/African 0 0% Other/Multi-racial 0 0% Unknown 2 9% TOTAL 23 100% Disabled/Special Needs 0 N/A Female-Headed Household 20 N/A Homeless 14 N/A San Leandro Residents 23 N/A 0-30% AMI 6 26% 31-50% AMI 2 9% 51-80% AMI 4 17% >80% AMI 11 48% Declined to state 0 0% TOTAL 23 100% INCOME CATEGORIES (% of AMI) ETHNICITY OTHER CATEGORIES RACE DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 22 Actions Taken To Address the Needs of Homeless Persons and the Special Needs of Persons Who Are Not Homeless but Require Supportive Housing Activities: ♦ Addressing the Needs of Homeless Persons • The City funded homeless prevention services provided by BFWC in its San Leandro Shelter and by Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC). San Leandro Shelter services include emergency shelter, case management, and other supportive services, while DSFRC provides groceries and clothing, medical and dental care, childcare, and other appropriate services such as employment counseling and housing assistance. BFWC served 211 homeless women and children, while DSFRC assisted 101 homeless clients and their dependents. • The City continues to be actively engaged in the county-wide EveryOne Home Plan. See “EveryOne Home” under Priority #7, pages 10-12. The City of San Leandro is committed to filling the gaps in service along the continuum and assuring that services now being provided are not lost. The following table summarizes the City’s programs in each component of the “continuum” to implement the EveryOne Home Plan: Outreach /Assessment Emergency Shelters Transitional Housing Permanent Supportive Housing Permanent Affordable Housing Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC) Davis Street Family Resource. Center (DSFRC) EveryOne Home Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC)’s San Leandro Shelter and domestic violence shelter Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC) Mission Bell units set aside for clients with mental health issues Fuller Gardens & Fuller Lodge: 42 Below-Market Rate (BMR) units for developmentally disabled 352 BMR units at 5 apartment complexes for seniors 613 Below-Market Rate (BMR) units. ECHO Housing Rental Assistance Program • The Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) is discussed under Priority #6, page 10. ♦ Addressing Special Needs Housing • The City has sixteen (16) below-market rate (BMR) properties with seventy (70) BMR units set aside for people with various disabilities, such as physical and mental disabilities, sight impairment, and/or hearing impaired. Two (2) of these properties target DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 23 developmentally disabled people, and five (5) properties, which includes the 51-unit Estabrook Place, that target seniors only. • Mission Bell Apartments has set aside six (6) of its twenty-five (25) rental units as permanent housing with supportive services for age youth adults with mental health disabilities, adults with mental illness or drug recovery with a history of homelessness, and adults with mental health issues and criminal record. Abode Services administers the housing component for these programs, while service provider Tri-City Homeless Coalition collaborates with the Fred Finch Youth Center for the STAY program, the HOPE Project Mobile Health Clinic for the Greater HOPE program, and with the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services Agency for the FACT program. These programs are discussed in “Transitional or Permanent Supportive Housing” under Priority #8 on page 12. • Building Futures for Women and Children (BFWC) provides twenty (20) beds for victims of domestic violence in their Sister Me Home Shelter. Actions to Address Obstacles to Meeting Underserved Needs, Foster and Maintain Affordable Housing, and Eliminate Barriers to Affordable Housing Activities: ♦ Address Obstacles to Meeting Underserved Needs • The Consolidated Plan priorities, discussed in Exhibit A, “Comparison of Goals and Objectives: FY 2010-2014 Consolidated Plan”, are designed to address the underserved needs in San Leandro. The primary obstacle to meeting the City’s underserved needs is securing available adequate funding resources. ♦ Foster and Maintain Affordable Housing • The City annually monitors preservation of 613 Below-Market Rate (BMR) rental units (funded and/or regulated by the City/Redevelopment Agency) for tenants earning between 30% and 120% of the Area Median Income. These BMR units include forty-sis (46) units at Surf Apartments whose ownership was transferred from Citizens Housing to Eden Housing this past fiscal year. Additionally, the City monitors sixty (60) existing BMR ownership units. • The 200-unit Cornerstone at San Leandro Crossings affordable family rental housing development is the redesign of the original 100-unit The Alameda at San Leandro Crossings project. Representing the initial development under the City’s acclaimed 2007 Downtown Transit-Oriented Development Strategy, the Cornerstone project is a planned affordable housing for very low-income households. The redesigned project will construct 50 one-bedrooms, 85 two-bedrooms, and 65 three-bedrooms that include a manager’s unit) for very low-and low-income households (60% AMI) and the following amenities: 7,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space, bike parking, a landscaped courtyard, a children’s play area, a multi-purpose community room with kitchen, and shared laundry rooms on each floor. The five-story building includes DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 24 parking below grade as well as within the ground level of the building with up to 325 parking stalls. Once completed the affordability period for this property will be at least fifty-five (55) years. • 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 historically preserved and improved the City’s existing housing stock and assisted elderly homeowners to age in place. However, the City suspended this program this past fiscal year. • The City’s Rent Review Board Program provides a non-binding arbitration board review of eligible rent increase cases in San Leandro. There were no Rent Review Board cases in fiscal year 2011-2012. This program is funded solely with City General Funds. • The joint consortium of the cities of San Leandro, Berkeley, Fremont, Union City, and Livermore received $2,230,495 in federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP1) funds authorized under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008. The consortium selected Hello Housing, formally known as Hallmark Community Solutions 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. Hello Housing has successfully purchased and sold eight (8) single-family homes to NSP1-qualified families: four (4) homes in the City of Livermore, one (1) home in Union City, one (1) home in the City of Fremont, and two (2) homes in San Leandro. In fiscal year 2011-2012, Hello Housing was able to purchase and rehabilitate two (2) additional NSP1-eligible properties in the City of Livermore. Both properties are anticipated to be sold to income eligible households in in Summer 2012. It is anticipated that the NSP1 program will have sufficient funds to acquire and rehab one (1) additional property before the program terminates in February 2013. Hello Housing continues to utilize its NSP Regional Marketing Website (www.homehub.org) where all NSP homes are listed and information about the NSP program is readily available. This site includes lenders, home buying counseling agencies, and real estate agents who are working with the NSP program. It also shares details about each of the jurisdictions and their developer partners that are working together to implement the NSP program. The goal is to better market the benefits of the NSP program operating across the Bay Area to prospective buyers, mortgage lenders, and real estate agents. • The Alameda County NSP2 Consortium, which has the Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department designated as its lead member and includes the City of San Leandro as well as the cities of Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Newark, Pleasanton, Union City, and the Unincorporated County, was awarded $11,000,000 in federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 (NSP2) funds authorized under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to purchase and rehabilitate foreclosed and vacant homes throughout the county. This past fiscal year 2011-2012, Hello Housing has sold three (3) NSP2 properties in San Leandro to NSP2-eligible households. Another property was successfully acquired and DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 25 rehabilitated, and is currently projected to be purchased by an income-eligible buyer in Summer 2012. Two (2) additional San Leandro properties were also successfully acquired and is currently in the process of being rehabilitated before it will be sold to two (2) other income-eligible households. ♦ Eliminate Barriers to Affordable Housing • The City’s State-certified Housing Element of the General Plan identifies barriers to affordable housing and establishes "Goal 58: Elimination of Housing Constraints", which identifies policies and actions with implementation strategies to eliminate barriers. These policies include amending zoning regulations, streamlining permitting procedures, evaluating development fees, providing a customer-friendly environment, resolving design issues, and correcting infrastructure deficiencies and soil contamination. • In addition, the City’s Fair Housing Action Plan, which was implemented under the City’s FY 2010-2014 HUD Five-Year Consolidated Plan period (July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2015), addresses the City’s impediments identified in the Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI) for the Alameda County HOME Consortium that was completed in January 2010. • The City provides Chinese-and Spanish-translated affordable housing programs/services brochures to the members of the public. These translated documents are also posted on the City website. Actions Taken to Overcome Gaps in Institutional Structure and Enhance Coordination The City coordinates with other City departments, social service agencies, other cities, and the County of Alameda to enhance the delivery of services and housing through the Continuum of Care Council. The City supports the Alameda County Continuum of Care Council and participates in meetings regularly to enhance coordination with other jurisdictions and countywide social service agencies. The City also worked closely with the Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department to adopt and provide support for its Alameda Countywide EveryOne Home Plan to end chronic homelessness. Using CDBG funds, the City subcontracted with six (6) non-profit agencies to provide social services programs. In addition, the City participates in the HOME Consortium (HOME TAC) with six (6) other cities and the County of Alameda. The City also supports the Housing Authority of Alameda County to operate the Section 8 Rental Assistance Program within San Leandro. Actions Taken to Improve Public Housing and Residential Initiatives San Leandro has no public housing. The Housing Authority of Alameda County (HACA), which DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 26 also has no public housing sites in San Leandro, administers the Section 8 voucher and Shelter Plus Care certificate programs for the City. HACA provided 1,402 vouchers and fifteen (15) certificates in FY 2011-2012. Actions Taken to Evaluate and Reduce Lead-Based Paint Hazards As required by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the City Building & Safety Services Division requires contractors to be EPA-lead certified before they can obtain necessary City building permits and before they can work on homes built prior to 1978. The City’s Single Family Rehabilitation Program, which was suspended throughout the 2011-2012 fiscal year, provides lead-based paint awareness and information literature in each application packet requesting for low interest loans and minor home repair grants. Testing is always performed on homes when there are children ages seven years old and under living in them. The City utilizes lead abatement contractors in addition to general contractors when appropriate to perform the necessary repairs. Similarly, the program requires EPA certificates from its general contractors certifying their training with regard to lead-based paint. The City informs tenants of lead-based paint and complies with both the new EPA law on lead and renovation as well as with applicable HUD lead-based paint hazard reduction guidelines and regulations when it uses federal funds, such as HOME funds, for acquisition and rehabilitation of apartments for preservation or maintenance of affordable housing Actions Taken to Ensure Compliance with Program and Comprehensive Planning Requirements ♦ Monitoring City staff monitor CDBG, HOME, and public service projects regularly. The Housing Services Division staff regularly monitor CDBG-funded public services projects through review of quarterly progress reports, invoice reimbursements, frequent communications with subrecipient staff, and site visits. Staff conducted CDBG-monitoring onsite visits to all six (6) CDBG-funded public services providers: Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC), Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC) for its Basic Needs and Community Counseling programs, Eden Council for Hope and Opportunity (ECHO Housing) for its Tenant/Landlord Counseling and Rental Assistance programs, Girls, Inc., Safe Alternative to Violent Environments (SAVE), and SOS/Meals on Wheels. Furthermore, staff monitor capital improvement projects for the City through review and approval of ongoing reimbursement requests and invoices and constant communications with relevant staff. Staff coordinated with pertinent agency staff to ensure that the projects adhered to the regulations and requirements of the CDBG program. ♦ Managing the Process The Housing Division staff assisted the Recreation and Human Services Department in issuing the two-year (FY 2010-2012) Request for Proposal (RFP) for the City’s Community Assistance Grant Program (CAP) that provides financial support support to community-based non-profit organizations whose services and programs meet the City’s social service needs. Prior to DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 27 allocating the CDBG funds and selecting the agencies to received CAP funding, Housing staff educate agency applicants and the Human Services Commission (HSC) about the CDBG program requirements. The CDBG requirements guide the HSC as they allocate the CDBG funds among the agencies selected to receive CAP funding. Fiscal year 2011-2012 represented the 2nd year of the City’s two-year funding cycle for its CAP program, and the CAP-funded agencies were funded, although each agency experienced a 17% funding reduction due to the significant reduction in the City’s 2011 CDBG allocation. Staff also make educational presentations to the City Council for approval of the annual Action Plan and CAPER. These City meetings are public, and RFP applicants and the general public are welcome to attend to ask questions about the CDBG Program and RFP process. The CDBG/Housing Manager oversees the CDBG and HOME Programs, while the Housing Specialist administers them to ensure program compliance with HUD rules and regulations. To ensure eligible CDBG activities, the Housing Specialist discusses proposed activities with CDBG-funded agencies about their scope of services and requests proposed scopes of work and budgets prior to a services agreement being approved. Staff monitors and reconciles with the City’s Finance Department and IDIS data monthly for accurate CDBG/HOME funding revenue/expenditures, timely expenditures of CDBG funds, and inputs data into IDIS. Desk monitoring includes reviews of progress reports, invoices, back-up documentation of expenses, and regular communications with subrecipients, including the provision of technical assistance about pertinent queries. Staff also conduct on-site monitoring visits of the City’s subrecipients to assess the subrecipients’ compliance with the CDBG program. Actions Taken to Reduce the Number of Persons Living Below the Poverty Level The City’s strategy to reduce the number of households with incomes below the poverty line is to fund programs that assist people to achieve economic independence and to preserve and build affordable rental housing. With CDBG funds, the City funded six (6) social service agencies that administered eight (8) programs that provide support services to help thousands of individuals reach personal and economic sustainability. Among these grant recipients was Davis Street Family Resource Center (DSFRC), which has an Employment and Housing Assistance Program designed to assist clients to become job ready and/or secure employment and housing. DSFRC employment and housing specialists meet oneone-one with working poor families to define their employment goals, training needs, and housing goals. Moreover, as described in the HPRP program under Priority 6 on page 10, DSFRC staff partner with Building Futures for Women & Children staff to provide short and long term financial assistance to HPRP-eligible families with ARRA stimulus funds to prevent homelessness and/or stabilize housing. DSFRC’s Employment Counseling program, furthermore, is designed to assist clients in securing employment and empowering clients to obtain further training and education to improve their job marketability. Lastly, DSFRC’s onsite computer lab provides clients with computers and free internet access. Clients can use the computers to search for employment opportunities and prepare their cover letters and resumes. With CDBG funds, Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC) also provided preemployment, life skills and housing assistance, as well as benefits advocacy to move clients into DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 28 self sufficiency. In FY 2011-2012, BFWC staff provided referrals for health care services and held support groups that addressed various topics such as domestic violence, parenting skills, barriers to housing, and basic life skills. BFWC also provided case management to 143 women. Sixty-one (61) of the eighty-five (85) women, or 72%, who exited after staying thirty (30) days or more, achieved safe and stable housing. Alameda County’s EveryOne Home Housing Outcomes define permanent housing as housing owned by the client, a house or apartment rent by the client, permanent supportive housing, a rented room, or staying with family and friends permanently. Ongoing preservation and monitoring of 613 below-market rate rental units is also an antipoverty strategy because the City maintains HUD rent limits for extremely low-, very low-, low-, and moderate-income people and for special populations like seniors and the disabled. DSFRC continues to help place prospective and income-qualified tenants into available BMR rental units and provide affordable housing search assistance to prevent homelessness. The City continued to seek opportunities to work with non-profit and for-profit developers to build affordable rental and ownership housing and to find affordable housing opportunities. As previously mentioned the City continued to work and meet regularly with BRIDGE Housing Corporation towards beginning the construction of the 200-unit affordable housing project Cornerstone at San Leandro Crossings. City staff also assisted non-profit affordable housing developer Eden Housing with assuming ownership of the 46-unit Surf Apartments; thus, helping to preserve the affordability restrictions of this affordable housing property. DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 29 PART III: EVALUATION OF ANNUAL PERFORMANCE The purpose of this section is to assess the City’s progress in meeting the priority needs and specific objectives identified in the FY 2011-2012 Action Plan. San Leandro completed the second year of its FY 2010-2014 HUD Consolidated Plan. The need to increase affordable housing, both rental and for sale, is one of the main goals of both the Housing Element of the City's General Plan and the Consolidated Plan (Con Plan). 1) Relationship of the Use of CDBG Funds to Priorities, Needs, Goals and Specific Objectives. All CDBG funds were used to help the CDBG Program meet its national objectives of providing a suitable living environment, decent housing, and economic opportunities to benefit low-and moderate-income persons. Exhibit A (page 32) compares the City’s anticipated housing and community development goals and actual outcomes for fiscal year 2011-2012. The City allocated all of its CDBG public services funds to six (6) subrecipients who provided support services to 13,685 low-income persons in need from July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012. Davis Street Family Resource Center received separate CDBG funding for two (2) of its programs: Basic Needs Programs and Community Counseling Program. ECHO Housing had three (3) of its programs funded with CDBG funds: Tenant/Landlord Counseling, Rental Assistance Program, and Fair Housing Counseling. Though, the City funded fair housing under the CDBG General Administration category. Additionally, as previously described, CDBG funds funded the following: 1) the replacement or installation of ADA curb cuts throughout the City; 2) the City’s implementation of its ADA Transition Plan designed to modify City facilities to make them more ADA accessible to disabled members of the public; 3) the purchase of a portable ADA swimming pool lifta at the San Leandro Boys and Girls Club Swimming Pool. The City, in addition, used CDBG funds to repay the Section 108 Loan it utilized to complete the construction of its new senior center in accordance with the HUD’s 20-year repayment schedule. 2) Changes in Program Objectives During this program year, there were no changes to the program objectives. The City did submit its Amendment to FY 2011-2012 Annual Action Plan in order to allocate $35,000 in unallocated CDBG funds to assist Eden Housing in acquiring and rehabilitating the 46-unit Surf Apartments. 3) Assessment of Efforts in Carrying Out Planned Actions Overall, the City has met or exceeded all of its housing and community development goals in its FY 2011-2012 HUD Action Plan. The notable accomplishments with CDBG and HOME funds are described above in the earlier sections of this document. See also the summary of accomplishments in Exhibit A of the Appendix. The City did not hinder Consolidated Plan implementation by action or willful inaction. 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. DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 30 5) Acquisition, Rehabilitation or Demolition of Occupied Real Property City staff discussed housing development opportunities with several developers seeking funding and sites. The City provided CDBG funds and Affordable Housing Trust Funds to Eden Housing to assume ownership and preserve the affordability restrictions at Surf Apartments. There was no demolition of occupied real property through use of CDBG or HOME funds during FY 2011-2012. 6) Economic Development Activities Undertaken Where Jobs Were Not Taken. No economic development activities where jobs were made available for low-income persons were undertaken with CDBG funds in FY 2011-2012. 7) Activities Serving Limited Clientele City staff tracked and verified income data and all activities serving limited clientele not falling within presumed benefit categories. Reports were monitored by the City to assure that at least 51% of the persons served had low/moderate-incomes (at or below 80% AMI). 8) Program Income The City did not have program income in FY 2011-2012. HOME Narrative As part of the County of Alameda HOME Consortium, the City of San Leandro receives HOME funds annually via the Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department. HOME expenditures totaled $17,382.96 for general administration costs. Citizen Participation The draft CAPER was available for public comment at the Community Development Department, the City Clerk’s Office, the main library, and on the City's website (http://www.sanleandro.org/depts/cd/housing/plans.asp). The comment period was from August 29th through September 17th, 2012. The Notice of a Public Hearing was published in the Daily Review on August 29th, 2012. The final CAPER includes various maps, including the geographic distribution and location of expenditures, areas of minority concentration, and census tracts. The Public Hearing to review the final CAPER is scheduled for the September 17th, 2012 City Council Meeting. DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 31 PART IV: APPENDIX Exhibit A-Comparison of Goals and Objectives – FY 2010-2014 Consolidated Plan Exhibit B-Summary of Accomplishments for Public Services Exhibit C-Maps Showing Locations of Consolidated Plan Activities Exhibit D-IDIS Reports DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2011-2012 City of San Leandro Page 32 Exhibit A Comparison of Goals and Objectives FY 2010-2014 Consolidated Plan Second (2nd) Year CAPER for FY 2010-2014 Con Plan City of San Leandro Exhibit A Other HUD Funds Other Funds FY FY 10-14 Action Plan Goals FY 10-14 Actual CAPER Outcomes FY 10-11 15 0 0% FY 11-12 15 0 0% FY 12-13 15 FY 13-14 15 FY 14-15 15 FY 10-11 5 0 0% FY 11-12 5 0 0% FY 12-13 5 FY 13-14 5 FY 14-15 5 FY 10-11 2 0 0% FY 11-12 2 0 0% FY 12-13 2 FY 13-14 2 FY 14-15 2 FY 10-11 2 0 0% FY 11-12 2 0 0% FY 12-13 2 FY 13-14 2 FY 14-15 2 FY 10-11 5 5 100% FY 11-12 5 0 0% FY 12-13 5 FY 13-14 5 FY 14-15 5 FY 10-11 15 19 127% FY 11-12 15 0 0% FY 12-13 15 FY 13-14 15 FY 14-15 15 COMPARISON OF GOALS and OBJECTIVES: FY 2010-2014 CONSOLIDATED PLAN HUD Objective: PROVIDE DECENT HOUSING Priority #1: Increase the availability of affordable rental housing for extremely low-, very low-, low-, and moderate-income families. 75 N/A Increase the supply of Private Units 25 affordable rental housing units Inclusionary Zoning & Density Bonus Ordinance (15% set aside housing units) New construction of affordable housing Affordability HOME Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside; City Affordable Housing Trust Fund; Private Units constructed Performance Indicator (# of) FY 10-14 Con Plan Goals Years 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 CAPER Percentage of Action Plan Goals HUD Outcome Affordability Acquisition and rehabilitation of Units 10 affordable housing Acquire and rehabilitate affordable housing Consolidated Plan Strategy Proposed Activites Action Plan FY 10-11 CDBG Funds Other Funding Sources Priority #2: Preserve existing affordable rental and ownership housing for low-and moderate-income households. N/A Apartment Rehabilitation Program Rehabilitation approved on case-by-case basis Units 10 Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside Rehabilitation loans 25 N/A Housing Rehabilitation Program (Single-Family Minor Home Repair Grant Program ) Provide grants Redevelopment Housing