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<br />DRAFT Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report: FY 2012-2013 <br />City of San Leandro <br />Page 26 <br /> <br /> The City’s Housing Rehabilitation Program, described under Priority #2 and Priority #6, <br />provided grants for twenty-three (23) owner-occupied homes. The program continues to <br />preserve and improve the City’s existing housing stock and assist elderly homeowners to <br />age in place. <br /> <br /> The City’s Rent Review Board Program, described under Priority #6, provides a non- <br />binding arbitration board review of eligible rent increase cases in San Leandro. There <br />were four (4) eligible Rent Review Board cases in fiscal year 2012-2013. This program <br />is funded solely with City General Funds. <br /> <br /> In May 2009, the Livermore NSP1 Program, a partnership of the cities of Livermore, <br />Berkeley, Fremont, San Leandro and Union City, were successfully awarded funds from <br />the State of California NSP 1 Program authorized under the Housing and Economic <br />Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008. The State identified Livermore and its partner cities as a <br />“Tier 2” recipient eligible for $2.23 million in funds. NSP funds are intended to address <br />the problem of foreclosed properties in need of rehabilitation. In FY 2012-2013, the <br />Livermore NSP1 Program provided development financing to its program contractor <br />Hello Housing, to purchase and rehabilitate one (1) foreclosed and vacant property <br />located within the jurisdiction of San Leandro. Hello Housing is now researching <br />opportunities to convert the home into special user housing for persons with disabilities. <br />In addition, Hello Housing, in partnership with Housing Consortium of the East Bay (a <br />housing developer serving disabled persons) completed the conversion and leasing of a <br />single-family residence acquired through the program with the assistance of a Mental <br />Health Services Act (MHSA) grant from the State into permanently affordable, services- <br />supported housing for three persons with mental health related disabilities. All of the <br />properties purchased through the NSP1 program have been considered severely blighted <br />and containing serious code violations affecting health and safety of the homes. Through <br />the program, those deficiencies have been rehabilitated and energy and water efficient <br />features have been incorporated to enhance long-term affordability. Since the program <br />began in January 2010, eleven (11) properties have been acquired and rehabilitated <br />through the NSP1 program in the jurisdictions of Livermore (6), Fremont (1), San <br />Leandro (3) and Union City (1). <br /> <br />Hello Housing continues to utilize its NSP Regional Marketing Website <br />(www.homehub.org) where all NSP homes are listed and information about the NSP <br />program is readily available. This site includes lenders, home buying counseling <br />agencies, and real estate agents who are working with the NSP program. It also shares <br />details about each of the jurisdictions and their developer partners that are working <br />together to implement the NSP program. The goal is to better market the benefits of the <br />NSP program operating across the Bay Area to prospective buyers, mortgage lenders, and <br />real estate agents. <br /> The Alameda County Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) <br />received a competitive grant of $11 million for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 <br />(NSP 2 program) under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). <br />Under the NSP2 grant, HCD is working with local nonprofit development partners to <br />purchase and rehabilitate at least 100 foreclosed and vacant homes and re-sell or rent