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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 15 Rent Review Board hearing requests logged of which there were 6 cases heard by the Rent Review Board in FY 2018-2019. 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 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice was completed in February 2015 and continues to be implemented under the City's FY 2015-2020 HUD Five-Year Consolidated Planning period (July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2020). The analysis examined various indicators of discrimination and recommended actions that the City could take to address discrimination. 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. The City informs tenants of lead-based paint and complies with both new EPA law on lead and renovation as well as with applicable HUD lead-based paint hazard reduction guidelines and regulations when it uses federal funds, such as HOME funds, for acquisition and rehabilitation of apartments for preservation or maintenance of affordable housing. City of San Leandro FY 2018-19 CAPER 21 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018)