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SAN LEANDRO GENERAL PLAN <br />ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE <br />EJ-15 <br />program for San Leandro and provides health education and carries out <br />environmental investigations where medical case criteria are met. <br />Housing Cost Burden: Cost burden is defined by Title 24 Housing and <br />Urban Development Code of Federal Regulations Section 91.5 as “[t]he <br />extent to which gross housing costs, including utility costs, exceed 30 <br />percent of gross income, based on data available from the U.S. Census <br />Bureau.” Households that are considered cost-burdened spend more than <br />30 percent of their gross income on housing costs, whereas those <br />considered severely cost-burdened spend over 50 percent on housing <br />costs. <br />CalEnvir oScreen uses the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) <br />Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) data to <br />determine cost burden by estimating the number of households within <br />each census tract earning less than 80% of HUD Area Median Family <br />Income by county and paying greater than 50% of their income to housing <br />costs. In San Leandro, 18.2 percent of households were cost burdened <br />according to CHAS data calculated from the US Census Bureau’s 2013- <br />2017 American Community Survey (ACS).14 Figure EJ-5 depicts the <br />CalEPA CalEnviroScreen housing cost burden percentiles for San <br />Leandro. Most areas of the city have a moderate housing cost burden (40th <br />to 60th percentiles) relative to all other California census tracts. Certain <br />neighborhoods in the city have notably high housing cost burden (75th <br />percentile or higher) relative to all other California census tracts, including <br />Eastshore-Davis Street (an Environmental Justice Community), <br />Washington Manor, and portions of the Downtown. <br />Overcrowding. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban <br />Development (HUD) defines an overcrowded unit as one occupied by 1.01 <br />persons or more per room. According to the ACS Estimates for 2015-2019, <br />approximately 8.2 percent of units in San Leandro are considered <br />overcrowded. Overcrowding severity trends in San Leandro are similar to <br />Alameda County as a whole, which is approximately 7.8%. Figure EJ-6 <br />depicts the percent of overcrowded households across neighborhoods in <br />San Leandro. Within the Eastshore-Davis Street neighborhood there are a <br />larger percentage of overcrowded rooms than other areas of the city, with <br />some areas of the neighborhood having greater than 20 percent of units <br />with overcrowded conditions. <br /> <br />14 Department of Housing and Urban Development. Comprehensive <br />Housing Affordability Study (CHAS). Measure year 2013-2017.