Reso 2020-055 US HUD FY 2015-2020 5-Year Plan, 19-20 Action pLan and CPP

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Public facilities that support healthcare or that provide safe housing for persons experiencing homelessness also are prioritized. The demand on the healthcare facilities for increased capacity has already been experienced in urban areas of the nation, and smaller and rural communities risk having their limited healthcare facilities over capacity during the viral surge. Both temporary and permanent capacity building for healthcare and homeless facilities are priorities. The ongoing shut -down of businesses has resulted in record unemployment, which severely impacts areas with a higher cost of living and areas already impacted by higher poverty rates. Small businesses have been especially impacted as many do not have the working capital to weather months of mandated shut -down while maintaining payrolls and employment benefits. The need for business support is increasing as the shut -down continues. The Needs Assessment of the Consolidated Plan outlines San Leandro's priority needs related to affordable housing, homelessness, supportive housing, and community development needs. The City's consultations, community meetings, priority needs survey, and public comment period all contributed in identifying which among these needs have the highest priority. Consequently, in the next five-year consolidated plan period (July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2020), the City will provide CDBG funds only to programs and projects that address the City's highest priority needs. During the development of the Consolidated Plan and to assist the City in identifying the City's highest priority needs, the City invited residents, non-profit agencies, and other general public to complete a Priority Needs Survey. Tremendous outreach efforts were made to ensure the broad distribution of the survey. The survey was 1) distributed at the two (2) community meetings the City held to discuss the City's Consolidated Plan; 2) emailed to the entire Housing Services Division CDBG distribution list; 3) posted on the City's website; and 4) converted into an online survey via surveymonkey.com to further improve outreach and to provide respondents a much simpler and more efficient way to submit their survey responses to the City. In all, City staff received a total of thirty-six (36) survey responses (7 paper survey responses and 29 surveymonkey.com responses) that identified the following highest priority needs (selection rate of at least 60% by survey respondents): a) increasing the availability of and preserving existing affordable rental housing; b) preserving existing homeownership; c) preventing those currently housed from becoming homeless; and d) pursuing economic development activities. In general the survey results are consistent with the costs burdens and other housing problems that resulted from the recent economic recession as well as with the rapidly increasing current rental rates in San Leandro as well as throughout Alameda County. Respondents have identified affordable housing and jobs are the City's highest priority needs. Consolidated Plan SAN LEANDRO 18 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018)