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File Number: 20-470 <br />Consolidated Plan. <br />·$11,000 to Davis Street Family Resource Center to provide affordable housing services, <br />including affordable rental housing referrals/placement, to lower income households; <br />·$15,000 to ECHO Housing to provide tenant and landlord counseling, which includes <br />mediation/conciliation services in addition to assisting City staff to administer the Rent <br />Review Program; <br />·$35,000 to Bay Area Affordable Homeownership Alliance (BAAHA) to administer and <br />monitor the City's Homebuyer Programs; and <br />·$25,000 to Building Futures with Women and Children to provide emergency food and <br />housing to homeless women and children in addition to social support services. <br />FY 2015-2020 Five Year Consolidated Plan Accomplishments <br />Significant progress was made to advance the HUD Five Year Consolidated Plan Goals and <br />Objectives to address affordable housing and community development needs. Cumulatively over <br />the past five years the following services were provided: ECHO Housing provided Fair Housing <br />Services to 130 households; there were nearly 60 owner-occupied homes that were provided <br />minor home rehabilitation grants; the City’s five public services partners provided assistance to <br />nearly 33,000 people; over $250,000 in ADA accessibility improvements were made to public <br />infrastructure around the City; a minor rehabilitation grant was made to the Luella Fuller Group <br />Home preserving important affordable housing stock; and two affordable housing developments <br />totaling 200 residential housing units (Marea Alta and La Vereda) were completed using HOME <br />Partnership funds. <br />In the final year of the Five-Year Consolidated Planning period, the FY 2019-2020 Annual Action <br />Plan was amended two times to program emergency assistance funds in response to the <br />Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19). The amendments implemented the federal Coronavirus Aid, <br />Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). Public Law 116-136 was adopted and <br />authorized on March 27, 2020. HUD awarded the City of San Leandro two rounds of funding from <br />this legislation. CARES Act Round I resulted in an allocation of $451,972 and Round III in the <br />amount of $711,206 in Community Development Block Grant-Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) funds to <br />prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19. <br />Current Agency Policies <br />Current City Council Policy is defined by the FYs 2015-2020 Five-Year Consolidated Plan, which <br />included the FY 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan, adopted by Resolution No. 2019-075 on May 6, <br />2019 with two Substantial Amendments made to it: first on June 15, 2020 by Resolution No. <br />2020-055 and the second on November 16, 2020 by Resolution No. 2020-___. This FY <br />2019-2020 CAPER covers the fifth year of the FY 2015-2020 Consolidated Plan cycle. <br />Previous Actions <br />The First and Second Substantial Amendments to the Annual Action Plan containing the <br />programs and activities carried out during FY 2019-2020 was approved by the City Council on <br />June 15, 2020 by Resolution No. 2020-055 and the second on November 16, 2020 by Resolution <br />No. 2020-___ respectively. <br />Page 5 City of San Leandro Printed on 11/11/2020