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Actions taken to reduce lead-based paint hazards. 91.220(k); 91.320(j) 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 1979. The City's Housing Rehabilitation Program provides lead-based paint awareness and information literature in each application packet requesting for housing rehabilitation grants. Testing is always performed on homes when there are children ages 7 years old and under living in them. The City utilizes I F!lead abatement contractors in addition to general contractors when appropriate to perform the necessary repairs. Similarly,1he 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 well as with applicable HUD lead-based paint hazard reduction @ funds, such as HOME funds, for acquisition and rehabilitation of affordable housing. Actions taken to reduce the number of poverty -level families. 91 The City's strategy to reduce the number of households with incomes bel that assist people to achieve economic independence and to preserve CDBG funds, the City funded four (4) social service agencies that ad,m services to help thousands of individuals reach personal and economic s Among these grant recipients is Dav Housing Assistance Program designi housing. DSFRC employment and ho employment goals, training needs, a designed to assist clients in securii education to improve their job m computers and free Internet access, their cover letters and resumes. The with to move clients into self - held support groups th housing, and basic life sl Forty-eight (48) of these s Street Family Res d to assist clients sing specialists me( id housing goals. E g employment an rketability. Lastly, --w EPA law on lead and renovation_as s and regulations when it uses federal ,nts for preservation or maintenance of .220(k); 91.320(j) owthe poverty line is to fund programs and building affordable housing. With inister programs that provide support ustainability. e Center (DSFRC), which has an Employment and come job ready and/or secure employment and e -on -one with working poor families to define their :'s Employment Counseling program, moreover, is 1powering clients to obtain further training and RC's onsite computer lab provides clients with search for employment opportunities and prepare :s own General Funds the non-profit agency Building Futures with Women & Children ovides pre-employment, life skills and housing assistance, as well as benefits advocacy fficiency. I In FY 2015-2016, BFWC staff provided referrals for health care services and addressed various topics such as domestic violence, parenting skills, barriers to s.: Building Futures also provided case management to 115 women and 61 children. omen and children exited to permanent housing. Furthermore, ongoing preservation and monitoring of 620 below-market rate rental units is also an anti -poverty strategy because the City maintains HUD rent limits for extremely low-, very low-, low-, and moderate -income people and far 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. City of San Leandro FY 2014-2015 CAPER OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 07/31/2015) 18