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File Number: 23-048 period of the eviction moratorium, but which has not yet been paid. Tenants who could not pay their rent due to loss of income from COVID-19 were required under the City ordinance to submit documentation in writing to their landlord (Attachment B). The COVID-19 pandemic has persisted longer than the City Council anticipated when it enacted Ordinance No. 2020-003, which contemplated that the Governor’s emergency declaration and the local emergency declaration might end earlier than May 31, 2020. Similarly, the scale of the economic impact caused by COVID-19 was deeper than expected at the time. In February 2020 the unemployment rate in Alameda County was 2.9%, but layoffs due to COVID-19 caused the unemployment rate to rise to 14.1% in April 2020, the highest rate since before World War II (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). The unemployment rate in Alameda County remained above 8% for 6 months, and did not drop below 5% for 18 months. Around Summer 2020 when the pandemic was at its height, the City approved over $1.1 million in federal Community Development Block Grant - Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) funds to create an Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) that provided rental payment assistance grants to 148 low-income San Leandro renters (out of about 250 applicants) whose incomes were negatively impacted by COVID-19; such funds were fully expended by 2022. There were over 300 applicants. The City contracted with a nonprofit Centro Legal de la Raza to administer the City’s ERAP Program. Alameda County created a similar but much larger federally funded emergency rental assistance program (Alameda Housing Secure), which stopped accepting applications in March 2022. This County program disbursed about $74 million to residents in incorporated cities and unincorporated areas in Alameda County. There were over 13,000 applications (totaling about $242,440,000 in requests), of which over 5,000 were approved. San Leandro was the fourth highest jurisdiction in the County to be awarded rental assistance funding from Alameda Housing Secure. The top three were: Hayward, Berkeley, and Unincorporated Alameda County. Over 1,700 San Leandro residents applied (requesting over $36 million), but only 656 San Leandro applicants were approved for rental assistance (totaling about $9.5 million). The average rental assistance grant amount for San Leandro residents was about $14,500. San Leandro was also the second highest per capita in the County to receive assistance behind Hayward. The County also contracted with Centro Legal de la Raza to administer its Alameda Housing Secure Program. Analysis Status of Eviction Moratoriums in Alameda County Cities This week City staff surveyed several cities in Alameda County in regards to the status of their eviction moratoriums. See summary below of the County jurisdictions that responded: ·City of Berkeley - moratorium is still in effect. The City has taken action every 60 days to extend the local emergency. ·City of Dublin - did not adopt a moratorium ·City of Emeryville - Moratorium ended September 30, 2020 ·City of Fremont - moratorium is still in effect, but similarly to San Leandro, has been Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 2/10/2023