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ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW DRAFT regional, state, and national levels on housing issues. The policies also sought to use local, regional, state, and federal funds —both public and private —to carry out housing programs. All of these policies have been implemented on an ongoing basis and continue to be relevant. However, the goal has been revised in the new Housing Element to focus on the administration of local housing programs. This avoids redundancy with other elements of the General Plan that focus on intergovernmental coordination. For the past 12 years, housing has remained a separate division within the City's Community Development Department. The City has a housing coordinator and a CDBG coordinator who are responsible for the monitoring and implementation of housing programs. State and federal funding for home repair, rental rehabilitation, special needs housing, and new construction continue to be aggressively pursued. Additional action steps relating to coordination with other jurisdictions, non-profit and for -profit developers, and the state and federal governments have been considered as part of the Housing Element update. The City has actively pursued federal CDBG and HOME funding for its housing programs since the adoption of the 1989 Housing Element. Annual allocations from these sources since the mid-1990s are shown in Table 2-1. The amounts are adjusted annually based on population, inflation, and congressional policy. The CDBG funds are used not only for housing rehabilitation, but also for a variety of capital improvement and public facility projects. These funds may also be used for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance and to cover "soft costs" such as engineering and architectural fees. The funds may not be used for ongoing maintenance or operational expenses. Most CDBG-funded programs require that at least 51 percent of the beneficiaries are low or very low income households. The HOME (Home Investment Partnership Act) funds are allocated to each City in the Alameda County HOME Consortium by the federal government. The County of Alameda is the lead agency for the consortium. San Leandro's allocation has been approximately $280,000 a year since the program was initiated in 1993. The funds have been spent primarily on the acquisition and rehabilitation of multi- family housing and on the development of transitional and special needs housing. Table 2-1: Annual CDBG and HOME Allocations, 1995-2001 Year CDBG HOME 1995 $141,866 $242,797 1996 $300,000 $250,140 1997 $117,658 $246,098 1998 $336,755 $262,000 1999 $1,287,104 (*) $283,000 2000 $250,000 $270,000 2001 $294,000 $270,000 Source: City of San Leandro, 2002 (*) The 1999 Figure is unusually high because it included a $1,000,000 Section 108 loan to build senior housing on East 1416 Street. HOUSING ELEMENT 2-4 SAN LEANDRO GENERAL PLAN 3CV%