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CAPER 18 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021) Actions taken to address obstacles to meeting underserved needs. 91.220(k); 91.320(j) Despite the difficulties of securing available adequate funding resources in meeting the City's underserved needs, the City addresses the underserved needs through the following: 1) Fostering and Maintaining Affordable Housing, and 2) Eliminating Barriers to Affordable Housing. Fostering and Maintaining Affordable Housing • The City has regulatory agreements that require annual monitoring of approximately 620 Below- Market Rate (BMR) rental units (funded and/or regulated by the City) for tenants earning between 30% and 120% of the Area Median Income. Additionally, the City regulates over 50 inclusionary BMR home ownership units. • City staff continues to respond to inquiries from private and non-profit developers to acquire property and rehabilitate or construct new affordable rental units. This includes collaborating with Eden Housing to construct a new 62 unit affordable housing development and Abode communities to construct a new 72 unit affordable housing development. • The City's Housing Rehabilitation Program provided funding to twenty (20) single-family owner- occupied home (See details in CR-20 – Affordable Housing). The program continues to preserve and improve the City' existing housing stock and assist senior homeowners with having the option to age-in-place. • The City's Rent Review Program, which is supported by staff funded by City General Funds, provides a non-binding arbitration board that reviews eligible rent increase cases in San Leandro. Recent statewide legislation (AB 1482, The Tenant Protection Act of 2019) limited rent increases to 5% + CPI, or 10% whichever is lower. In FY 21-22 the sanctioned allowable rent increase in the State of California was <7% which triggers the City’s Rent Review Ordinance therefore there were no cases heard by the City’s Rent Review Board. • The City adoped a Mobile Home Space Rent Stabilization Ordinance for the City’s nine mobile home parks with the goal of preserving affordable housing for approximately 855 mobile home space tenants of San Leandro. Eliminating Barriers to Affordable Housing • The City's CA State-certified Housing Element of the General Plan identifies barriers to affordable housing and establishes "Goal 58: Elimination of Housing Constraints," that identifies policies and actions with implementation strategies to eliminate those barriers. These policies include amending zoning regulations, streamlining permitting procedures, evaluating development fees, providing a customer-friendly environmental, resolving design issues, and correcting infrastructure deficiencies and soil contamination. • The City's Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice was updated in January 2020 and will be implemented under the City's FY 2020-2025 HUD Five-Year Consolidated Planning period