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<br />Needs Assessment <br /> <br />NA-05 Overview <br /> <br />Needs Assessment Overview <br />The Needs Assessment of the Consolidated Plan outlines San Leandro's priority needs related to <br />affordable housing, homelessness, supportive housing, and community development needs. The City's <br />consultations, community meetings, priority needs survey, and public comment period all contributed in <br />identifying which among these needs have the highest priority. Consequently, in the next five-year <br />consolidated plan period (July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2020), the City will provide CDBG funds only to <br />programs and projects that address the City's highest priority needs. <br /> <br />During the development of the Consolidated Plan and to assist the City in identifying the City’s highest <br />priority needs, the City invited residents, non-profit agencies, and other general public to complete a <br />Priority Needs Survey. Tremendous outreach efforts were made to ensure the broad distribution of the <br />survey. The survey was 1) distributed at the two (2) community meetings the City held to discuss the <br />City’s Consolidated Plan; 2) emailed to the entire Housing Services Division CDBG distribution list; 3) <br />posted on the City’s website; and 4) converted into an online survey via surveymonkey.com to further <br />improve outreach and to provide respondents a much simpler and more efficient way to submit their <br />survey responses to the City. <br /> <br />In all, City staff received a total of thirty-six (36) survey responses (7 paper survey responses and 29 <br />surveymonkey.com responses) that identified the following highest priority needs (selection rate of at <br />least 60% by survey respondents): a) increasing the availability of and preserving existing affordable <br />rental housing; b) preserving existing homeownership; c) preventing those currently housed from <br />becoming homeless; and d) pursuing economic development activities. <br /> <br />In general the survey results are consistent with the costs burdens and other housing problems that <br />resulted from the recent economic recession as well as with the rapidly increasing current rental rates in <br />San Leandro as well as throughout Alameda County. Respondents have identified affordable housing <br />and jobs are the City’s highest priority needs. <br /> Consolidated Plan SAN LEANDRO 14 <br />OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 07/31/2015)