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housing project which includes 115 family units in Phase 1 and 85 senior housing units in Phase 2, which was awarded State/Federal low income housing tax credit equity funding in November 2016. • The City's Housing Rehabilitation Program provided funding to six (6) owner -occupied homes (See details in CR -20 — Affordable Housing). The program continues to preserve and improve the City' existing housing stock and assist senior homeowners with having the option to age -in- place. • The City's Rent Review Program, which is funded solely with City General Funds, provides a non- binding arbitration board review of eligible rent increase cases in San Leandro. There were forty one (41) Rent Review Board Requests for hearings logged of which there were ten (10) cases heard by the Rent Review Board in fiscal year 2016-2017. Eliminating Barriers to Affordable Housing • The City's CA State -certified Housing Element of the General Plan identifies barriers to affordable housing and establishes "Goal 58: Elimination of Housing Constraints," that identifies policies and actions with implementation strategies to eliminate those barriers. These policies include amending zoning regulations, streamlining permitting procedures, evaluating development fees, providing a customer -friendly environmental, resolving design issues, and correcting infrastructure deficiencies and soil contamination. • The City's Fair Housing Action Plan, which was implemented under the City's FY 2010-2014 HUD Five -Year Consolidated Plan period (July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2015), addresses the City's impediments identified in the Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI) for the Alameda County HOME Consortium that was completed and adopted in January 2015. See below --Table 1: City of San Leandro's Efforts to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing in the Jurisdiction—for more details. The City provides Chinese- and Spanish -translated affordable housing programs/services brochures to the members of the public. These translated documents are also posted on the City website. 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 lead abatement contractors in addition to general contractors when appropriate to perform the necessary repairs. Similarly, the program requires EPA certificates from its general contractors certifying their training with regard to lead-based paint. CAPER OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018) W