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Davis Street Family Resource Center (Davis Street) - Affordable Housing Services In FY 2016-2017, the City provided City General Funds to Davis Street to assist individuals seeking housing search assistance, including placement into permanent housing. During the fiscal year, Davis Street served 536 clients , of which 9 households were placed into permanent housing throughout the City, and 2 clients were assisted with security deposits. Davis Street also provided 200 homeless or at risk of becoming homeless individuals with information on local services to help them with their housing search. Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again Objective: Create Suitable Living Environment Priority: Maintain and expand activities designed to prevent those currently housed from becoming homeless. Rental Housing Counseling Using City General Funds, the City contracted with ECHO Housing for Rental Housing Counseling services to help keep people in their housing. Information and referral services were provided to 129 landlords and tenants. (Note that this data reflects only through the third quarter; fourth quarter data was not available at the time that this report was published.) In FY 2016-2017, ECHO Housing handled 49 cases related to eviction and succeeded in preventing 8 households from being evicted. Staff also assisted with 12 landlord -tenant inquiries related to repairs, 13 cases regarding security deposits, 19 instances involving rent increases, 2 occurrences of unlawful entry by the landlord, and 4 cases involving retaliation by the landlord. There were also 46 miscellaneous inquiries (e.g. information on rental contracts and unlawful detainers, providing general information on tenant and landlord rights with referrals to attorneys, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO), Eviction Defense, small claims court, and mediation services). ECHO Housing staff assisted 7 households with conciliation/mediation services including successfully conciliating 19 rent increases cases and the aforementioned 8 eviction cases that were successfully conciliated as well. Lastly, staff referred 14 households to attorneys or small claims court. Additionally, the City provided City General Funds to ECHO Housing to assist staff in administering the City's Rent Review Program, which provides a non-binding arbitration board review of eligible rent increase cases in San Leandro. ECHO Housing and City staff addressed a total of 132 inquiries (83 tenant and 49 landlord) relating to the City's policies on rent increases and its Rent Review Program. There CAPER 15 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018)