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ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW DRAFT Me Home Safe House, formerly located in a leased facility, is now in a two -unit property purchased by the 64 SLSWC. The City continues to contribute a portion of its annual CDBG allocation to the SLSWC and the Davis Street Family Resource Center. It has also contributed CDBG funds toward the operation and repair of a shelter in Hayward and to the Emergency Shelter Network which serves homeless persons throughout Alameda County. Although no transitional housing has been built in San Leandro per se, the City has contributed local funds toward the construction of several projects in adjacent communities. The City was a partner in the development of a new 51-unit transitional and supportive housing project located on the former Alameda Naval Air Station property. It also contributed $200,000 in HOME funds toward the construction of a 28- unit project in Castro Valley for formerly homeless residents, including persons with AIDS; and $104,000 in HOME funds toward a transitional housing development in unincorporated Ashland. Conclusions on Goal 8 Housing Element Goal 8 and its various policies remain extremely relevant and important. The goal and policies have been extensively edited in this Housing Element update to avoid redundancy with the Land Use Element and address additional topics of importance. Whereas the land use policies address the design, character, and location of new housing, the Housing Element policies emphasize the affordability aspect. New quantified objectives have also been developed for the coming five-year period. Table 2-2 compares housing production between 1989 and 1998 with the City's "fair share" allocation for that period. During the last Regional Housing Needs Determination (RHND), ABAG had allocated 2,425 units to San Leandro, including unincorporated Ashland. The City's portion of this allocation was estimated to be 1,819 units (75 percent), including 455 very low income units, 309 low income units, 382 moderate income units, and 674 above moderate income units. The City protested these numbers at the time, as the allocation of units between Ashland and San Leandro was unclear and presumed considerably more capacity in the City than actually existed. Only about one-third of this quantity of housing was actually produced during 1989-1998. The City nearly met its target for above moderate income units, but fell far short of the targets for very low, low, and moderate income units. The combination of economic recession, limited land supply, high housing costs, and limited funds for assisted housing prevented the City from achieving the RHND target. Moreover, the City's affordable housing programs during the 1990s emphasized the rehabilitation of older units rather than the construction of new units. The rehabilitated units do not appear in Table 2-2. Many other communities in the Bay Area performed similarly. As Table 2-2 indicates, only 56 percent of the housing units allocated by ABAG to the nine Bay Area counties were actually built, including just 40 percent of the very low, low, and moderate income units. HOUSING ELEMENT 2-13 SAN LEANDRO GENERAL PLAN /--/ O `i