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Consolidated Plan SAN LEANDRO 23 <br />OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018) <br />Needs Assessment <br />NA-05 Overview <br />Needs Assessment Overview <br />The Needs Assessment of the Consolidated Plan outlines San Leandro's priority needs related to <br />affordable housing, homelessness, supportive housing, and community development needs. The City's <br />consultations, community meetings, priority needs survey, and public comment period all contributed in <br />identifying which among these needs have the highest priority. Consequently, in the next Consolidated <br />Planning period (July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2025), the City will provide CDBG funds only to programs <br />and projects that address the City's highest priority needs. <br />During the development of the Consolidated Plan and to assist the City in identifying the City’s highest <br />priority needs, the City invited residents, non-profit agencies, and other general public to complete a <br />Priority Needs Survey. Significant outreach efforts were made to ensure the broad distribution of the <br />survey. The survey was 1) distributed to the second community meeting the City held to discuss the <br />City’s Consolidated Plan (the survey was emailed to participants of the first community meeting since it <br />was not yet available for that meeting); 2) emailed to multiple email distribution lists including various <br />sectors of the City (social service agencies, chamber of commerce, homeowners associations, affordable <br />housing developments, among many others); 3) posted on the City’s website; and 4) online via <br />SurveyMonkey.com to further improve outreach and to provide respondents a much simpler and more <br />efficient way to submit their survey responses to the City. <br />In all, City staff received a total of 229 survey responses (14 paper survey responses and 215 <br />surveymonkey.com responses) that identified the following highest priority needs (selection rate of at <br />least 60% by survey respondents): a) increasing the availability of and preserving existing affordable <br />rental housing; b) preserving existing homeownership; c) preventing those currently housed from <br />becoming homeless; and d) pursuing economic development activities. <br />In general the survey results are consistent with the cost burdens and other housing problems that <br />resulted from the economic recession of last decade and recent housing affordability/supply crisis. <br />Housing rental rates have consistently y increased in the last decade in San Leandro as well as <br />throughout Alameda County. <br />Other comments received at public meetings include the following: <br />• There was a question about if the installation of security surveillance cameras by the San <br />Leandro Police Department was an eligible use of CDBG funds; <br />• There was a comment on the need for childcare facilities and if there was a need to re-zone any <br />areas of the City to accommodate this need; <br />261