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City of San Leandro Community Development Department HUD FY 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan: Priority Needs Survey 52 / 53 property values. Need City to focus on enabling policy. 17 HELP HELP HELLLLLP. BArely hanging, being froced out, should have left already. Been in my place more than 10 years & when new owner purchsed increases every year for no good reason other than greed. 18 I wish my children can afford to live here 19 It should be mandatory that rental property owners provide energy efficient rentals. As a renter I am not I am not able to upgrade my unit to reflect energy efficiency. Landlords do not benefit from energy efficient properties because the cost to do all units is not cost efficient. Therefore, tenants are left with their hands tied, paying extremely high rents combined with high utility costs. My PGE during winter is $250-275 per month due to heat escaping through ancient windows that rattle when the wind blows as well as doors that need weather stripping. I've bought energy efficient window coverings but that is not enough. In the summer the same issue of cost with air conditioner. Rental property owners should be mandated by the state to upgrade and maintain energy efficient properties or give up their right to own. Incentives currently offered for efficiency are ignored by rental owners as they are not cost efficient. Renters are treated like second class citizens force to compromise their well being because landlords don't care. Our state suffers as well making a profit off of rent and not contributing to making our state green. 20 The hotel planned for the Marina is an ugly, basic design. The Marina area should be planned for upscale housing and services. Make it a destination point for people visiting as well as a go to area for people all over the Bay Area. It is a one time opportunity with a beautiful venue to do something grand Think big! 21 Code enforcement needs to do something to clean up the dilapidated houses in Washington Manor area. 22 Rents are too HIGH, utilize and update empty buildings for homes and businesses, communities should be of equal businesses and not just one culture. Too many businesses are being over-run with unnecessary stores and stuff and not being provided what San Leandro really needs. 23 Build more townhomes 24 Make homes cheaper for low income families. 25 help the homeless and enforce littering, loitering and camping laws 26 Affordable housing and support for homeless 27 This city caters to the white, privileged homeowners, and doesn't give a damn about renters or people at the bottom of the economic ladder. 28 I'm really against in more building in the Manor. We were a small community now with the new residential building that's going to be where Manor Bowl is currently. So sad 29 The City should know about and care about the conditions of rental housing. Tenants should not have to sue their landlords in order to have living conditions that meeting the State of California's Warranty of Habitability. There has to be a way to keep existing housing affordable other than building a lot of market rate units hoping to force landlords of older buildings to not charge 'market rates' or just stop doing maintenance or repairs. 30 We need rent control. 5 -7% is too high for existing high rents. 31 encourage improvement of "eyesore" vacant lots suc as near Fargo & Washington and Lewelling & Washington. Fix the sidewalks, even in the southern end of the city, and fix the streets. There are terrible potholes on Manor, E. 14th, and Halcyon (to name just a few) 32 Low-income tenants in mobile home parks seem especially vulnerable to sudden rent hikes. Would like to see the city provide aid and support to this issue. 33 Enact rent control for exiting tenants and protection from eviction on grounds of " rehab" as a ploy to raise rents; 34 San Leandro needs rent control. 35 Land is very scarce in SL - need to build mid-rise immediately adjacent to BART (both stations) 81