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File Number: 13-563 <br />2.Affordable housing development <br />3.Administration of housing programs <br />4.Home ownership <br />5.Affordable housing conservation <br />6.Green and sustainable neighborhoods <br />7.Special needs populations <br />8.Elimination of housing constraints <br />9.Fair housing <br />The State also uses the APR to monitor progress by cities and counties on achieving their <br />Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) goals. State law requires that each city and <br />county ensure that its “fair share” of regional housing accommodate community needs at all <br />income levels. Therefore, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) allocated to San <br />Leandro its RHNA assignment of 1,630 total housing units for the 2007-2014 period at various <br />income levels as shown in the following table. Also shown below is the City’s total production <br />of housing units by the end of 2012: <br />UNIT INCOME LEVELS RHNA ALLOCATION HOUSING UNITS <br />Very Low-Income 368 195 <br />Low-Income 228 759 <br />Moderate-Income 277 19 <br />Above Moderate-Income 757 75 <br />TOTALS 1,630 1,048 <br />Between 2007 and 2010, the City met 13% of its overall total RHNA goal (218 of 1,630 units). <br />By producing an additional 830 units between 2011 and 2012, the City has now produced <br />1,048 units, or 64% of its RHNA goal of 1,630. <br />With regard to income levels, the City's strongest performance continues to be in the <br />production of "very low" income and “low” income housing units, respectively, meeting 47% <br />and over 332% of its target goals to date. All of the actual production of units in the “very low” <br />and “low” income category can be attributed to three (3) multifamily housing rental <br />developments: Casa Verde (68 units), a former blighted motel completed in 2008, Estabrook <br />Place (51 units), a senior housing complex completed in 2010, and Lakeside Village (840 <br />units), a multi-family rental housing development currently in the process of converting from a <br />100% market rate complex to a 100% affordable rental housing property without any City <br />funding. <br />However, production continues to be less robust in the moderate- and above <br />moderate-income categories. Although the marketplace primarily contributes to the <br />production of above moderate-income units, the City has only met 10% of its RHNA goal to <br />date. These housing production numbers are a reflection of the recent economic recession, <br />the downturn in the regional housing market and steep decline in residential permits issued <br />since 2006. In San Leandro, the number of residential permits issued in 2011 (4) and in 2012 <br />(6), continues to be very modest. <br />Furthermore, the State elimination of the City’s Redevelopment Agency has severely <br />hampered the City’s ability to achieve several of its Housing Element goals and objectives . <br />Without Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside funds, the City had to eliminate its First Time <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 12/10/2013